Eye of the Beholder · Metallica

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

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TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
6:29
DIFFICULTY
83/100
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 · BAR 76
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 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

13 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?

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 hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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 55 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

17 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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