FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Eye Of The Storm mp3

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 25-27 and 29, and 14 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
43/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 186 BPM
EYE OF THE STORM MP3 · BAR 17

It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 10 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 43 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 140 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, and nothing else. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 140, 163 and 186 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Eye Of The Storm mp3 use?

A one-bar groove on crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 186 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 26.7% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 17-19, 25-27, 29 and 33-35, and 13 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.

Is the beat in Eye Of The Storm mp3 hard?

10 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED