Five Eyes · Demonstration Of Power

152 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 13 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
FIVE EYES · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 29 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 16 sections: 66 keep time, 35 are fills, 31 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-7.

PART B
CHORUS
PART Q
PART S
PART T
PART AG
CHORUS 2
PART AX
15 groovesIAGTAXB+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Five Eyes?

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

Is Five Eyes hard to play on drums?

62 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Five Eyes?

18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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