Eye Of The Cyclops · Guttural Slug

54 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 2:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 9 and 11, and 2 more places -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
EYE OF THE CYCLOPS · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 21.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 13 sections: 35 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-54.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART P
OUTRO
8 groovesAJFHL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eye Of The Cyclops?

85 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 Cyclops hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Eye Of The Cyclops?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 21.

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