Keep Your Eyes Peeled · Queens Of The Stone Age

163 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 108 BPM, 4:32 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 26 more places -- 46% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 13, 54, 57, 60, 63, 67 and 5 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 8 sections: 133 keep time, 12 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-53.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBNSMGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Keep Your Eyes Peeled?

108 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Keep Your Eyes Peeled hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Keep Your Eyes Peeled?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 13, 54, 57, 60, 63, 67 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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