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Eye of the Tiger · Survivor (Austin)

Eye of the Tiger · Survivor (Austin)
EXERCISE 5 OF 8
Groove E
86 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
5 groovesCBS1S3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eye of the Tiger on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-11 and hi-hat through bars 12-107.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-28, 30-36 and 38-43, and 5 more places -- 83.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Eye of the Tiger -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 29.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Eye of the Tiger?

109 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Tiger hard to play on drums?

51 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Tiger?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 29.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED