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Eyes Gouged Out · Contaminant

EXERCISE 27 OF 61
Run O1 · Part O (bars 42-45)
60 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART O
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 1
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eyes Gouged Out on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
65/100

toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-20, toms through bars 21-23, silence through bars 24-27, hi-hat through bars 28-41 and ride through bars 42-45, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---------------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Eyes Gouged Out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG (a two-bar phrase), S -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-23 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-56 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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