Doctor My Eyes · Jackson Browne

112 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-24 and 26-30, and 5 more places -- 91% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
DOCTOR MY EYES · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 7 times: bars 9, 25, 31, 54, 60, 83 and 1 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 2 sections: 101 keep time, 7 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-112.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Doctor My Eyes?

150 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 Doctor My Eyes hard to play on drums?

52 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Doctor My Eyes?

1 fill to learn, played 7 times: bars 9, 25, 31, 54, 60, 83 and 1 more.

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