An Eye For An Eye · Gods Tower

161 bars, 9:10, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
9:10
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 17 more places -- 39.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
AN EYE FOR AN EYE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 15 sections: 112 keep time, 1 is a fill, 21 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-25.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBEDGI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is An Eye For An Eye?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is An Eye For An Eye hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 9:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 An Eye For An Eye?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

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