Only In Your Eyes · Meltt

96 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-19, 21-27 and 45-47, and 2 more places -- 44.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
ONLY IN YOUR EYES · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 40, 72 and 76.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 4 sections: 86 keep time, 4 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-27.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Only In Your Eyes?

115 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 Only In Your Eyes hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Only In Your Eyes?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 40, 72 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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