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EXERCISE 5 OF 40
Groove W
23 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V
PART C
CHORUS
PART S
PART V
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK 2
8 groovesS10MCSV+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play eyes [v3] on drums

106 bars at 204 BPM -- fast, and 3:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
204 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
70/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, toms through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-26 and snare through bars 27-30, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 53-55, and 2 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x---------------x---------------|
T1 |--------------------x-----------|
T2 |------------x-------------------|
FT |----x---------------------------|
BD |x-------x-------x---------------|
eyes [v3] -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- M -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is eyes [v3]?

204 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is eyes [v3] hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 [v3]?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED