Phantom Of The Opera · Iron Maiden

264 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 270 BPM, 5:04 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
270 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
264
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20, 22 and 24, and 15 more places -- 37.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 270 BPM
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA · BARS 36-37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 34, 35, 40, 41, 58, 59 and 19 more.

LOOP · 270 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 270 BPM
BARS 94-95 · LANDS ON BAR 96 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 270 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 270 BPM
BARS 131-132 · LANDS ON BAR 133 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

264 bars across 18 sections: 134 keep time, 26 are fills, 2 are stops and 95 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-124.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
VERSE
PART M
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
BREAK 5
13 groovesDS18KYS1+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Phantom Of The Opera?

270 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Phantom Of The Opera hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

264 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Phantom Of The Opera?

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 34, 35, 40, 41, 58, 59 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 264 BARS ANALYSED
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