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Eye Of The Tiger · Survivor

EXERCISE 12 OF 12
Play the whole song with the record
111 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 116 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART C
BREAK
PART C
BREAK 2
CHORUS
BREAK 3
BREAK 4
7 groovesECS1AS3+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eye Of The Tiger on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

62 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
116
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-64, snare through bars 65-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-116.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-29 and 31-45, and 5 more places -- 79.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Eye Of The Tiger -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 6-95 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break 3 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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?

62 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED