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Behind These Hazel Eyes (Updated) · Kelly Clarkson

EXERCISE 21 OF 42
Groove P -- Part P
49 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
6 groovesHFBPS7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Behind These Hazel Eyes (Updated) on drums

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
44/100

snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-47, snare through bars 48-53, silence through bars 54-57, hi-hat through bars 58-65 and snare through bars 66-73.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 14-16 and 26-36 -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Behind These Hazel Eyes (Updated) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 17, 21, 22 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F, H -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-18 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-41 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 42-58 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Behind These Hazel Eyes (Updated)?

90 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 These Hazel Eyes (Updated) hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Behind These Hazel Eyes (Updated)?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 17, 21, 22 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED