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Phantoms · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 29 OF 29
Play the whole song with the record
132 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 132 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART S2
PART BI
PART BX
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAEBXBIS2CCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Phantoms on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bars 1-41, toms through bars 42-44, snare through bars 45-79, toms through bars 80-81, silence through bars 82-85 and snare through bars 86-99, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    53               54
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x----x-x---x|--x--x------x--x|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x--x-x-x-x|--x--x-x--x-x--x|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Phantoms -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- AE, BX -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BV (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 88 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-96 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 87-108 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 108-115 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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