Eye Of The Storm · Blindside

234 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 195 BPM, 3:36 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-16, 22-24 and 26-33, and 20 more places -- 57.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 195 BPM
EYE OF THE STORM · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 25, 55, 77, 85, 93 and 8 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 159 · LANDS ON BAR 160 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

234 bars across 14 sections: 75 keep time, 14 are fills, 129 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 144-158.

PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
8 groovesEABJL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eye Of The Storm?

195 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Eye Of The Storm hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

234 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Storm?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 25, 55, 77, 85, 93 and 8 more.

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