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Phantom Power and Ludicrous Speed · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 20 OF 72
Groove P
56 / 139 BARS COVERED
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PART C
CHORUS
PART F
PART F
PART AR
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAFBEARC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 24
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Phantom Power and Ludicrous Speed on drums

139 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 3:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-17, snare through bars 18-32, hi-hat through bars 33-41 and toms through bars 42-48, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 18 and 20, and 10 more places -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    133
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------f-------|
BD |--------------x-|
Phantom Power and Ludicrous Speed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 9, 10, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- A, F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BE -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Phantom Power and Ludicrous Speed?

159 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Phantom Power and Ludicrous Speed hard to play on drums?

60 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 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 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 Power and Ludicrous Speed?

8 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 9, 10, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED