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Eyes · Sans Seraph

Eyes · Sans Seraph
EXERCISE 15 OF 58
Groove I -- Part I
82 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART N
PART A
PART B
PART I
PART N
PART E
PART N
PART E
PART T
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
9 groovesXEINB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eyes on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

50 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
147
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-50, toms through bars 51-58, snare through bars 59-66, hi-hat through bars 67-70 and snare through bars 71-72, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 59-65 and 83-90, and 2 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    59
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x--x----|
BD |x--x--x-------x-|
Eyes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 22, 26, 34, 42, 50, 52 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- E, X -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part I and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-73 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-100 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Eyes?

140 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 hard to play on drums?

50 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 22, 26, 34, 42, 50, 52 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED