Open Your Eyes · Guano Apes

85 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 10-11 and 29-31, and 7 more places -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 112 BPM
OPEN YOUR EYES · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 27, 28, 40, 51, 52 and 2 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 10 sections: 61 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-26.

INTRO
PART G
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCIGOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Open Your Eyes?

112 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?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 27, 28, 40, 51, 52 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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