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Phoenix · Stratovarius

EXERCISE 1 OF 78
Groove E -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART W
CHORUS 4
PART O
CHORUS 5
10 groovesEOWLG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Phoenix on drums

220 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 5:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
75/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-46, snare through bars 47-54, ride through bars 55-70, hi-hat through bars 71-92 and snare through bars 93-100, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 71-73, and 12 more places -- 18.7% 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
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Phoenix -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-18 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part I -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-63 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Phoenix?

154 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?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

220 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 36 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED