Don't Close Your Eyes · Kix

143 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-52, 57-78 and 81-83, and 7 more places -- 56.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 127, 128, 129 and 130.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 127-130 · LANDS ON BAR 131 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 14 sections: 101 keep time, 4 are fills, 5 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-94.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
10 groovesEAS1BS10+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Don't Close Your Eyes?

145 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 Don't Close Your Eyes hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Don't Close Your Eyes?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 127, 128, 129 and 130.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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