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Eye Of The Storm · Blindside

Eye Of The Storm · Blindside
EXERCISE 25 OF 30
Groove M
188 / 234 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART L
OUTRO
8 groovesEABJL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eye Of The Storm on drums

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.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-5, hi-hat through bars 6-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-33, ride through bars 34-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-44, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6            7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|------------|
HH |o---o---o---|o---o---o---|
SD |------------|x-----------|
BD |x-----x---x-|------------|
Eye Of The Storm -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B, J -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-33 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 34-137 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 166-234 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 234 BARS ANALYSED