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Eye Of The Storm · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 14 OF 55
Join Part D to Part F (bars 15-17)
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0 / 55 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART F
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART Y
OUTRO 2
11 groovesKYDHN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eye Of The Storm on drums

196 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 4:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-56, snare through bars 57-64, hi-hat through bars 65-88, toms through bars 89-118, snare through bars 119-120 and ride through bars 121-126, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 41-43, and 9 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---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

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 16, 36, 44, 56, 64 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-18 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-25 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 21-36 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-65 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-89 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Eye Of The Storm?

194 BPM, in 4/4, 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?

63 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 16, 36, 44, 56, 64 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED