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EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove A -- Chorus
0 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 51 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eyes Of The South on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-64, snare through bars 65-71, toms through bars 72-80, hi-hat through bars 81-91, snare through bars 92-98 and toms through bars 99-107, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-|
Eyes Of The South -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- A, R -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-77 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 74-119 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED