Eye of The Beholder (Eb/D#) · Metallica

195 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 6:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
6:29
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 30-35 and 38, and 15 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 122 BPM
EYE OF THE BEHOLDER (EB/D#) · BAR 76
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 24, 36, 41, 46, 47, 61 and 40 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 46-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 17 sections: 122 keep time, 46 are fills, 5 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

PART A
CHORUS
PART L
PART O
PART T
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART T
7 groovesCTOAL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eye of The Beholder (Eb/D#)?

122 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 The Beholder (Eb/D#) hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 6:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Eye of The Beholder (Eb/D#)?

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 24, 36, 41, 46, 47, 61 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
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