Blurry Eyes · L'Arc〜en〜Ciel

209 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 4:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-36, 38-39 and 41-44, and 8 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BLURRY EYES · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 20 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 24-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 84-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

209 bars across 18 sections: 134 keep time, 26 are fills, 27 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 186-201.

PART D
PART L
PART L
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesSLNDK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blurry Eyes?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Blurry Eyes hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Blurry Eyes?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 209 BARS ANALYSED
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