Eyes Roll Back · Fit for a King

107 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 8 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
EYES ROLL BACK · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 22, 25 and 10 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 12 sections: 70 keep time, 16 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-59.

CHORUS
PART N
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART AA
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCAARAN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eyes Roll Back?

130 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 Roll Back hard to play on drums?

64 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Roll Back?

14 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 22, 25 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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