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Open Your Eyes · Guano Apes

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Open Your Eyes on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, toms through bars 37-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-85.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x--x--xx--xx--x-|
Open Your Eyes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Intro -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Intro and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 8-29 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-62 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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