Lyin' Eyes · Eagles

214 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 6:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
6:12
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 9-60 and 66-68, and 4 more places -- 90% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 138 BPM
LYIN' EYES · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

214 bars across 4 sections: 206 keep time, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-211.

OUTRO
4 groovesCS2S1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lyin' Eyes?

138 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 Lyin' 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 6:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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