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Ophelia · Balmora, holder

Ophelia · Balmora, holder
EXERCISE 4 OF 85
Fill at bar 9, 17, 93 and 97 (a small one)
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0 / 85 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ophelia on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 2-25, snare through bars 26-54, hi-hat through bars 55-65, snare through bars 66-82, toms through bars 83-87 and ride through bars 88-89, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-x-----x-------x-------|
Ophelia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 2-34 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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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