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The Fate of Ophelia (Cover) · Our Last Night

EXERCISE 9 OF 63
Fill at bar 50 (a small one)
50 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART S2
CHORUS
PART L
PART B
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART W
OUTRO 2
9 groovesILBWS2+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Fate of Ophelia (Cover) on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
49/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-7, silence through bars 8-16, toms through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-45, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-29, 31-34 and 65-68, and 2 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---xx--x---xx|
The Fate of Ophelia (Cover) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 23, 24, 25, 30, 35 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- I -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-53 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 5-21 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-35 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-75 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Fate of Ophelia (Cover)?

124 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 The Fate of Ophelia (Cover) hard to play on drums?

49 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Fate of Ophelia (Cover)?

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 23, 24, 25, 30, 35 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED