Ophelia · Balmora, holder

154 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6-8 and 10, and 5 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 146 BPM
OPHELIA · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 5, 9, 11, 17, 19 and 20 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 16 sections: 88 keep time, 26 are fills, 20 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 146-153.

CHORUS
PART I
PART N
PART S
PART AB
PART AB
CHORUS 2
PART AP
PART AT
PART AW
OUTRO 2
14 groovesBSBCABN+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ophelia?

146 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 Ophelia hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 25 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Ophelia?

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 5, 9, 11, 17, 19 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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