Open Your Eyes · Alter Bridge

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-25, 46-50 and 52-54, and 3 more places -- 37.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 82 BPM
OPEN YOUR EYES · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 99.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 99 · LANDS ON BAR 100
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 12 sections: 78 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-92.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHEBFS9+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Open Your Eyes?

82 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 Open Your Eyes hard to play on drums?

61 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 Open Your Eyes?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 99.

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