Opus Pocus · Jason Becker

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-63, 66-72 and 74-79, and 1 more place -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 98 BPM
OPUS POCUS · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 16, 23, 31 and 12 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 12 sections: 76 keep time, 20 are fills, 16 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-79.

PART S2
PART K
PART V
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAGRVKS2+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Opus Pocus?

98 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 Opus Pocus hard to play on drums?

63 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Opus Pocus?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 16, 23, 31 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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