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The Phoenix · Fall Out Boy

EXERCISE 16 OF 16
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
PART E
PART G
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
PART E
PART G
BREAK 4
CHORUS 3
PART G
BREAK 5
OUTRO
9 groovesBGES3S8+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Phoenix on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
33/100

hi-hat through bars 3-25, silence through bars 26-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-33, hi-hat through bars 34-60, silence through bars 61-64 and kick and crashes through bars 65-68, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-49, 70-84 and 112-126 -- 35.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
The Phoenix -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 127.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- G, B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 48-135 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is The Phoenix?

138 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 Phoenix hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Phoenix?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 127.

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