Bright Eyes · Blind Guardian

119 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-35, 38-39 and 62-63, and 3 more places -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BRIGHT EYES · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26 and 35 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 12 sections: 56 keep time, 41 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-10.

PART A
PART D
PART I
CHORUS
PART L
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesPIADL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bright Eyes?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Bright Eyes hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Bright Eyes?

13 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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