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In The Eye Of The Storm · Arch Enemy

EXERCISE 15 OF 39
Groove K
75 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIEQABB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In The Eye Of The Storm on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-30, snare through bars 31-40, hi-hat through bars 41-54 and snare through bars 55-64, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35-37 and 57, and 13 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
In The Eye Of The Storm -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 15, 16, 62, 88, 96, 112 and 1 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 -- I, E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-63 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is In The Eye Of The Storm?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 In The Eye Of The Storm hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 In The Eye Of The Storm?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 15, 16, 62, 88, 96, 112 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED