Phobophile · Cryptopsy

197 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
5:59
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 23 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
PHOBOPHILE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

32 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 14, 18, 22 and 61 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

28 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 22 sections: 101 keep time, 67 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 169-174.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART AQ
OUTRO
14 groovesBAQHUBA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Phobophile?

130 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 Phobophile hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 5:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 93 exercises over 30 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 Phobophile?

32 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 14, 18, 22 and 61 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
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