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

EXERCISE 8 OF 71
Groove D
81 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eye of The Beholder (Eb/D#) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
6:29
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-45, toms through bars 46-47, hi-hat through bars 48-88, toms through bars 89-90 and hi-hat through bars 91-147, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    76
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------x-----|
Eye of The Beholder (Eb/D#) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- C, A -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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