Cross Eyed · On The Verge

110 bars at 235 BPM -- fast, and 1:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
235 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
1:50
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49-51, 53-54 and 57-59, and 5 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 235 BPM
CROSS EYED · BARS 49-50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 36 and 6 more.

LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 9 sections: 83 keep time, 12 are fills, 4 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-75.

PART A
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART Q
PART S6
OUTRO
9 groovesKDWAQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cross Eyed?

235 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Cross Eyed hard to play on drums?

53 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 1:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Cross Eyed?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 36 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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