The Fate of Ophelia · Taylor Swift

112 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PopCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-10, 12-15 and 17-24, and 21 more places -- 58.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
THE FATE OF OPHELIA · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 64.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 6 sections: 97 keep time, 2 are fills and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-44.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
4 groovesDS5BS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Fate of Ophelia?

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 hard to play on drums?

47 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 64.

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