Opalite · Taylor Swift

120 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Country / FolkPop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-35, 37-39 and 41-44, and 5 more places -- 90.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
OPALITE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 4 sections: 115 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-120.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Opalite?

125 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 Opalite hard to play on drums?

46 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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