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Eyes Roll Back · Fit for a King

EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eyes Roll Back on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
64/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-22, hi-hat through bars 23-42, snare through bars 43-46, hi-hat through bars 47-51 and snare through bars 52-55, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5                                                                6
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-------x-----------x-------------------x-----------x-------x---|x-----------x-----------x-------------------x-------x---x-------|
Eyes Roll Back -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, R -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-27 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part N -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 38-61 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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