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Eye for An Eye · Silosys

Eye for An Eye · Silosys
EXERCISE 24 OF 91
6-bar fill at bar 27
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0 / 91 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART E
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART Y
CHORUS 4
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesHYAYEAW+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 17
LINK · 4
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eye for An Eye on drums

172 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-16, hi-hat through bars 17-23, snare through bars 24-25, toms through bars 26-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-36, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 22-23 and 37, and 18 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|
Eye for An Eye -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 24, 25 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- H, Y -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Eye for An Eye?

174 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 Eye for An Eye hard to play on drums?

56 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Eye for An Eye?

18 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 24, 25 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED