Phantoms · Meshuggah

132 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41, 53-54 and 65-66, and 1 more place -- 5.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
PHANTOMS · BARS 53-54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 75 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 1-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 76 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 116-118 · LANDS ON BAR 119 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 132
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 6 sections: 38 keep time, 81 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 119-131.

CHORUS
PART S2
PART BI
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAEBXBIS2CCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Phantoms?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Phantoms hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 33 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Phantoms?

4 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 75 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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