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Phoenix · Wishbone Ash

Phoenix · Wishbone Ash
EXERCISE 16 OF 55
Groove N
193 / 264 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Phoenix on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
264
LENGTH
11:56
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-71, toms through bars 72-75, hi-hat through bars 76-84, ride through bars 85-91 and hi-hat through bars 92-141, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    77
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o----x----------o----x----------o----x----------o----x----------|
SD |-----x-----x---------x-----x---------x-----x---------x-----x----|
BD |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
Phoenix -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD, J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J and Part B -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AA -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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