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Eye of the Beholder · Metallica

EXERCISE 8 OF 73
Groove D
81 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 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 · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eye of the Beholder on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
6:29
DIFFICULTY
83/100

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 91-115, and 7 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 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 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 55 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 Part L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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