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Blurry Eyes · L'Arc〜en〜Ciel

EXERCISE 17 OF 65
Groove M
148 / 209 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 10
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blurry Eyes on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
59/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-25, hi-hat through bars 26-45, snare through bars 46-53, hi-hat through bars 54-73 and snare through bars 74-81, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Blurry Eyes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S, N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-90 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 50-62 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 86-104 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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