ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eye Of God on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 120 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 100
LENGTH: 3:22
DIFFICULTY: 80/100

snare through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-16, snare through bars 17-33, toms through bars 34-37, snare through bars 38-40 and toms through bars 41-42, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-13, 16 and 47-49 -- 7.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11                               12
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------X---X-X---------X-------|--------X---------------X---X-X-|
T2 |----------------------------X-X-|--------------------------------|
FT |----------------------------X-X-|--------------------------------|
BD |--x-x-x---x-----x-x-x-x---x-----|x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x---x---x-----|

Eye Of God -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AE (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part K and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part Y -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
Through Part AD -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
and 10 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Eye Of God?

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 Eye Of God hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Of God?

12 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED