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Evil Eyes · Architects

EXERCISE 23 OF 53
Run C2 · Part C (bars 25-28)
65 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART M
PART S9
PART AD
PART AF
OUTRO
8 groovesFMCAFAD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Evil Eyes on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
75/100

snare through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-14, snare through bars 15-20, toms through bars 21-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-24 and snare through bars 25-28, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 19, and 6 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |------------x-----------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------------x-----------|
Evil Eyes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 6, 14, 21, 22, 26 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- M -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 14-29 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Evil Eyes?

103 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 Eyes hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Eyes?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 6, 14, 21, 22, 26 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED