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Keep Your Eyes Peeled · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBNSMGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Keep Your Eyes Peeled on drums

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

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-146 and snare through bars 147-163.

The beat

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.

    2
    1...........2...........3...........
HH |x-----x-----o-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------x-----------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------------x-----|
HF |------------------x-----------------|
Keep Your Eyes Peeled -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Bars 57-65 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 99-106 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 126-163 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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