Eyes Of The South · Down

180 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-51 -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
EYES OF THE SOUTH · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 56, 68, 72, 76, 80, 89 and 20 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 9 sections: 132 keep time, 26 are fills, 11 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-51.

CHORUS
PART G
PART D
PART G
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesARDGP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eyes Of The South?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Eyes Of The South hard to play on drums?

59 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Eyes Of The South?

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 56, 68, 72, 76, 80, 89 and 20 more.

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