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Phantom Lord · Metallica

EXERCISE 3 OF 55
Fill at bar 16 and 49 (a small one)
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Phantom Lord on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
30 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
21:25
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bars 2-11, silence through bars 12-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-30 and ride through bars 31-32, and 29 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--------x-----------x--x--------|
Phantom Lord -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- I, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-37 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-46 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-94 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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