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Calm Eyes Fixed On Me, Screaming · Foreground Eclipse

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove AG -- Outro
0 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART C
PART J
PART K
PART G
PART AB
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesAGKCABJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Calm Eyes Fixed On Me, Screaming on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
80/100

hi-hat through bars 1-21, ride through bars 22-25, snare through bars 26-32, hi-hat through bars 33-41, ride through bars 42-45 and snare through bars 46-67, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55-65 -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    55
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-----------x-------x-------x---x-------x-x-x-x-x-------|
Calm Eyes Fixed On Me, Screaming -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- AG -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Calm Eyes Fixed On Me, Screaming?

90 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 Calm Eyes Fixed On Me, Screaming hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Calm Eyes Fixed On Me, Screaming?

8 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED