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Open Your Eyes And Look North · Dance Gavin Dance

EXERCISE 28 OF 102
Groove O
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0 / 102 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P, PART X, PART AF
PART A
PART P
PART V
PART X
PART AF
PART X
PART X
OUTRO
17 groovesASAVXZ+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 23
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 5
JOIN · 19
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Open Your Eyes And Look North on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-22, snare through bars 23-39, toms through bars 40-48, hi-hat through bars 49-60, snare through bars 61-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-80, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    61
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Open Your Eyes And Look North -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 83 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-97 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-80 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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