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Phantom Of The Opera · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 6 OF 53
Groove E
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0 / 53 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Phantom Of The Opera on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
270 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
264
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-19, ride through bars 20-33, snare through bars 34-35, ride through bars 36-39, snare through bars 40-41 and ride through bars 42-51, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    36                       37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|------------x---x---x---|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---------------|
SD |--g---x---x---g---x---x-|--g---x---x-------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x---x---x---|
Phantom Of The Opera -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 44-76 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 5 and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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