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The Phantom Agony · Epica

EXERCISE 39 OF 59
Groove Q
114 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
PART B
PART D
PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART D
PART B
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJBDHR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Phantom Agony on drums

161 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, ride through bars 15-29, hi-hat through bars 30-39, ride through bars 40-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-64, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-55, 57-63 and 99-105, and 1 more place -- 17.9% 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
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
The Phantom Agony -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 18, 26, 29, 35, 39 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- J, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-65 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-118 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part S11 and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Phantom Agony?

110 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 The Phantom Agony hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 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 The Phantom Agony?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 18, 26, 29, 35, 39 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED