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Bright Eyes · Blind Guardian

EXERCISE 5 OF 66
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-11)
29 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bright Eyes on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
70/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-53, ride through bars 54-61, hi-hat through bars 62-81, snare through bars 82-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-119.

The beat

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.

    34                                                               35
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|x-----------------------x-------x---------------x---------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|--------o-------o-----------------------o---------------o-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|------------x-----------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|x-----------------------x-------x-------------------------------|
Bright Eyes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26 and 35 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 -- P -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 22-44 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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