ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cross Eyed on drums

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.

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

TEMPO: 235 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 110
LENGTH: 1:50
DIFFICULTY: 53/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-80, kick and crashes through bars 81-85 and silence through bars 86-90, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    49               50
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---------------|
SD |--------x-x-----|----x-------x-x-|
T1 |----------------|------xx--------|
T2 |----------------|--------xx------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-|--x-------x-----|

Cross Eyed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- O (a two-bar phrase), D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part G and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
and 4 more sittings after that.

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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