Phantom of the Octaves · Scott Pattinson

87 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-41 -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
PHANTOM OF THE OCTAVES · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 12.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 11 sections: 39 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 40 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-41.

PART A
PART B
PART I
CHORUS
BREAK
11 groovesS5LBIA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Phantom of the Octaves?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 of the Octaves hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 of the Octaves?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 12.

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