Open Your Eyes And Look North · Dance Gavin Dance

172 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 4:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-75 -- 8.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 162 BPM
OPEN YOUR EYES AND LOOK NORTH · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 20, 22, 31, 32, 76 and 29 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 24 sections: 101 keep time, 35 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-75.

PART A
PART P
PART V
OUTRO
17 groovesASAVXZ+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Open Your Eyes And Look North?

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

Is Open Your Eyes And Look North hard to play on drums?

56 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 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 Open Your Eyes And Look North?

18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 20, 22, 31, 32, 76 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
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