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Evil Eye (Live 1984) (AI) · Alcatrazz

EXERCISE 1 OF 72
Groove AS -- Part AS
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COUNT-IN
PART D
PART N
PART I
PART AE
CHORUS
PART AS
PART AV
OUTRO
16 groovesALASNS17D+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Evil Eye (Live 1984) (AI) on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-25, hi-hat through bars 26-32, ride through bars 33-42, hi-hat through bars 43-48 and ride through bars 49-56, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 91-96 and 101-104 -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    92
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |oo---o---o---o---o---o-o-o---o--|
SD |x----x-------x-------x-x-----x--|
BD |-x-------x-x---x-x-x-----x-x----|
Evil Eye (Live 1984) (AI) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 17, 18, 21, 27, 35 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- AS -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-29 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Evil Eye (Live 1984) (AI)?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Evil Eye (Live 1984) (AI) hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 95 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 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 Evil Eye (Live 1984) (AI)?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 17, 18, 21, 27, 35 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED