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Hungry Eyes · Eric Carmen

EXERCISE 9 OF 14
Fill at bar 101 (a small one)
102 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hungry Eyes on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:48 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
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
50/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-105.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-52, 54-68 and 70-76, and 4 more places -- 92.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|x-------x-----x-|
Hungry Eyes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 53, 77, 85, 93, 101 and 105.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- B -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Hungry Eyes?

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

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 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 Hungry Eyes?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 53, 77, 85, 93, 101 and 105.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED