Phantom Island · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

151 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 5:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 96-97, 100-101 and 104-105, and 11 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 104 BPM
PHANTOM ISLAND · BAR 96
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56 and 16 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 13 sections: 87 keep time, 22 are fills, 5 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART C
PART E
PART C
OUTRO 2
10 groovesQCES1S5+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Phantom Island?

104 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Phantom Island hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Phantom Island?

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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