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Phantom of the Octaves · Scott Pattinson

Phantom of the Octaves · Scott Pattinson
EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove L -- Chorus
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0 / 20 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART B
PART I
CHORUS
BREAK
11 groovesS5LBIA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Phantom of the Octaves on drums

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.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-41, silence through bars 42-80 and snare through bars 81-87.

The beat

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.

    26
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |--------x---x-----------x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Phantom of the Octaves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- L, A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-29 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-86 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED