Phantom Lord · Metallica

161 bars, 21:25, at 30 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
30 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
21:25
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 31 and 37-39, and 16 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 30 BPM
PHANTOM LORD · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 16 and 24 more.

LOOP · 30 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 30 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 30 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 30 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 17 sections: 110 keep time, 30 are fills, 3 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-35.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART M
PART X
CHORUS 3
PART I
11 groovesFIXMB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Phantom Lord?

30 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Phantom Lord hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 21:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Phantom Lord?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 16 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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