Phoenix · Wishbone Ash

264 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 11:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
264
LENGTH
11:56
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 76-83, 92-99 and 101-124, and 2 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
PHOENIX · BAR 77
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 22 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 3-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

264 bars across 11 sections: 190 keep time, 28 are fills and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-141.

PART J
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART AD
CHORUS 3
PART AD
BREAK
7 groovesYADJBS11+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Phoenix?

100 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 Phoenix hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

264 bars, about 11:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 264 BARS ANALYSED
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