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Burning Eyes · Aima

EXERCISE 1 OF 72
Groove J -- Outro 2
0 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT
PART S2
PART G
PART S4
PART N
PART T
PART AD
PART AE
PART AG
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJS2TS4AD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burning Eyes on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
79/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-22, hi-hat through bars 23-25, silence through bars 26-38, hi-hat through bars 39-42, ride through bars 43-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-58, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-24, 39-40 and 99-105, and 2 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    100
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------x-----------------|
Burning Eyes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part G -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-43 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part S4 and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Burning Eyes?

150 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 Burning Eyes hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Burning Eyes?

18 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED