Eye In The Sky · Alan Parsons Project

127 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-24, 26-40 and 42-58, and 3 more places -- 95.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 116 BPM
EYE IN THE SKY · BARS 2-3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 41, 59, 75 and 93.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars: 122 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-127.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eye In The Sky?

116 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 Eye In The Sky hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet 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?

127 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Eye In The Sky?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 41, 59, 75 and 93.

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