Glowing Eyes · Athgowla

218 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 4 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
GLOWING EYES · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 217 and 218.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 217-218 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

218 bars across 22 sections: 152 keep time, 2 are fills, 7 are stops and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 156-172.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
PART S10
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
13 groovesDFS10JK+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Glowing Eyes?

160 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 Glowing Eyes hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Glowing Eyes?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 217 and 218.

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