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.

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

TEMPO

132 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

135

LENGTH

4:05

DIFFICULTY

61/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-71, snare through bars 72-75, hi-hat through bars 76-82, toms through bars 83-87 and hi-hat through bars 88-99, and 2 more changes after that.

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|

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

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part E and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
5. Bars 27-71 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
6. Bars 80-86 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
7. Through Part G and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. Through Part S and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.