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Eventide · Providence

EXERCISE 11 OF 89
11-bar fill at bar 15
99 / 230 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART X
VERSE
VERSE 2
PART AI
CHORUS 2
15 groovesHXAIAGT+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 11
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eventide on drums

204 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
89/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16, ride through bars 17-19, hi-hat through bars 20-124 and ride through bars 125-134, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-48, 50-56 and 78-84, and 1 more place -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-xx-xxxxxxx-ooo|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x---x---x---|
Eventide -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 56 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- AG -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Eventide?

200 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 Eventide hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Eventide?

13 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED