Eyes Gouged Out · Contaminant

131 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 34-36 and 38-41 -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
EYES GOUGED OUT · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 13 and 17 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 19 sections: 49 keep time, 23 are fills, 21 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

PART D
PART F
CHORUS
BREAK
PART S
PART X
PART AA
PART S13
OUTRO 2
16 groovesAFMSDAA+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eyes Gouged Out?

170 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 Eyes Gouged Out hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Eyes Gouged Out?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 13 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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