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OPHELIA ft. HOLDER · Balmora

EXERCISE 17 OF 100
Join Part G to Chorus 2 (bars 24-26)
68 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 100 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS 2
PART B
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART U
PART AN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesEUADPAN+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 9
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play OPHELIA ft. HOLDER on drums

177 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
84/100

hi-hat through bars 2-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-15, toms through bars 16-17, snare through bars 18-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-31, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 26-29 and 31, and 4 more places -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1...........2...........3...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--------x-----------x-----------|
OPHELIA ft. HOLDER -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 17, 21, 32 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 80 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U, N -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 21 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is OPHELIA ft. HOLDER?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is OPHELIA ft. HOLDER hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 29 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 ft. HOLDER?

19 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 17, 21, 32 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED