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Phoenix · Satyricon

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 41 PASSED · 42 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
5 groovesCRHLEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Phoenix on drums

178 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 6:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
6:18
DIFFICULTY
66/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-147, toms through bars 148-152 and hi-hat through bars 153-178.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-43, 45-47 and 57-59, and 3 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Phoenix -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-134 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Phoenix?

113 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 Phoenix hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 6:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Phoenix?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED