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PHOENIX · Shrezzers

EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove D -- Part D
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PART D
CHORUS
PART M
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIMDAKVFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play PHOENIX on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, snare through bars 25-44, hi-hat through bars 45-54 and snare through bars 55-60, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 8 more places -- 13.9% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxx--x-x---x--x-|
PHOENIX -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 55 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 24-43 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is PHOENIX?

122 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?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in PHOENIX?

18 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED