Eyes Of The World · Grateful Dead

141 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9 and 11, and 16 more places -- 44.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
EYES OF THE WORLD · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 72, 109, 110, 111 and 112.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 109-112 · LANDS ON BAR 113 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 14 sections: 115 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

CHORUS
PART G
PART H
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
7 groovesAEHGI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eyes Of The World?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 World hard to play on drums?

51 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Eyes Of The World?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 72, 109, 110, 111 and 112.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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