More Than Meets The Eye · Testament

174 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 34-36, and 10 more places -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 67 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 6-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 8 sections: 87 keep time, 73 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-102.

PART I
PART S
PART S
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesOSIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is More Than Meets The Eye?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is More Than Meets The Eye hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 More Than Meets The Eye?

21 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 67 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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