Phantom Of The Opera · Nightwish

134 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 23-26 and 31-34, and 9 more places -- 42.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 22, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 23 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 27-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 70-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 11 sections: 64 keep time, 29 are fills, 30 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-21.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDTVS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Phantom Of The Opera?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Phantom Of The Opera hard to play on drums?

56 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

7 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 22, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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