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Eyeless (7/5 string version) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 12 OF 83
Join Part B to Part H (bars 17-19)
63 / 193 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART H
PART O
PART O
PART X
CHORUS
PART AL
PART AC
OUTRO
14 groovesAHOHACS+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eyeless (7/5 string version) on drums

193 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, 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
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-13, toms through bars 14-18, hi-hat through bars 19-24, snare through bars 25-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42 and snare through bars 43-50, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-21, 24 and 27-33, and 3 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27                               28
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x-------x-------x---x-x-|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|x---x-------x-------x-----------|
Eyeless (7/5 string version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- H, Y -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Eyeless (7/5 string version)?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Eyeless (7/5 string version) 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Eyeless (7/5 string version)?

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED