ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Phrygian Dominant on drums

72 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO: 160 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 72
LENGTH: 1:48
DIFFICULTY: 65/100

snare through bars 1-31, toms through bars 32-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-48, snare through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-64 and snare through bars 65-72.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-16 -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                                                10
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--------x--x-----x--------x--x-----x--------x--|x-----x--------x--x--------------x--x--x--x--x--|

Phrygian Dominant -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 33, 36 and 48.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- G, Z -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Bars 9-41 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
Through Part G and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
and 1 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Phrygian Dominant?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Phrygian Dominant hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 1:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 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 Phrygian Dominant?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 33, 36 and 48.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED