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An Eye For An Eye · Gods Tower

An Eye For An Eye · Gods Tower
EXERCISE 4 OF 29
Groove C
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBEDGI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play An Eye For An Eye on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
9:10
DIFFICULTY
65/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-57, ride through bars 58-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-97, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
An Eye For An Eye -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-29 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-101 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 118-135 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED