From Under Eye-Lid · Alternative Competition 7

41 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 1:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
41
LENGTH
1:40
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 11 and 14-16, and 5 more places -- 47.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 97 BPM
FROM UNDER EYE-LID · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 21.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 6 sections: 30 keep time, 1 is a fill, 5 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-32.

PART A
CHORUS
PART S4
OUTRO
BREAK 2
5 groovesES6AS4S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is From Under Eye-Lid?

97 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 From Under Eye-Lid hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

41 bars, about 1:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 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 From Under Eye-Lid?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 21.

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