The Phantom Of The Opera · Nightwish

135 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 26-27 and 34-35, and 7 more places -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 9, 23, 29, 31, 45, 51 and 19 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 13 sections: 70 keep time, 25 are fills, 19 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-22.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
PART E
PART H
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDEHSW+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The 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 The Phantom Of The Opera hard to play on drums?

61 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?

135 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Phantom Of The Opera?

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 9, 23, 29, 31, 45, 51 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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