Behind Blue Eyes (The Who Cover) · Limp Bizkit

36 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:12 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and mid tom.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
36
LENGTH
1:12
DIFFICULTY
16/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 8-10 and 12-14, and 5 more places -- 75% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BEHIND BLUE EYES (THE WHO COVER) · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

36 bars across 4 sections: 24 keep time and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-20.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Behind Blue Eyes (The Who Cover)?

120 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 Behind Blue Eyes (The Who Cover) hard to play on drums?

16 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

36 bars, about 1:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and mid tom. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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