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Can't Take My Eyes Off You · Muse

EXERCISE 34 OF 41
2-bar fill at bar 89
93 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAIELM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Can't Take My Eyes Off You on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-43, toms through bars 44-45, ride through bars 46-61, hi-hat through bars 62-80, toms through bars 81-82 and ride through bars 83-96, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1, 3 and 5-19, and 1 more place -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|----r-------r---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|--x---x-x-------|
Can't Take My Eyes Off You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 20, 36, 45, 53, 57 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- A, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-40 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-58 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-54 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-81 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 87-100 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Can't Take My Eyes Off You?

126 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Can't Take My Eyes Off You hard to play on drums?

63 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 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 Can't Take My Eyes Off You?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 20, 36, 45, 53, 57 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED