Behind Blue Eyes · The Who

46 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 1:26 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
46
LENGTH
1:26
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-7, 10-11 and 21, and 2 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BEHIND BLUE EYES · BARS 6-7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 7, 9, 11, 19, 20, 22 and 9 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

46 bars across 5 sections: 17 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-28.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBGS5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Behind Blue Eyes?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Behind Blue Eyes hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

46 bars, about 1:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, 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 Behind Blue Eyes?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 7, 9, 11, 19, 20, 22 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 46 BARS ANALYSED
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