← SONGS

Come On Eileen · Save Ferris

Come On Eileen · Save Ferris
EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 37 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCJEAMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Come On Eileen on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-72, ride through bars 73-95, snare through bars 96-100 and kick and crashes through bars 101-113.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 8 more places -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----------x--------------x--------x-----------|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x--x-----x--------x-----x-----|
Come On Eileen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 101, 102, 103, 106, 109, 110 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-96 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 95-113 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Come On Eileen?

125 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 Come On Eileen hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Come On Eileen?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 101, 102, 103, 106, 109, 110 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED