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Bette Davis Eyes · Kim Carnes

Bette Davis Eyes · Kim Carnes
EXERCISE 9 OF 15
Fill at bar 83, 95 and 103
89 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBS1S4S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bette Davis Eyes on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-23, hi-hat through bars 24-35, silence through bars 36-38, kick and crashes through bars 39-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-84, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-33, 54-63 and 65-67, and 5 more places -- 53.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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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---x---|
Bette Davis Eyes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 23, 53, 64, 68, 83, 91 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- D, B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 33-54 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 82-106 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bette Davis Eyes?

117 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 Bette Davis Eyes hard to play on drums?

43 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Bette Davis Eyes?

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 23, 53, 64, 68, 83, 91 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED