Open Your Eyes · Snow Patrol

177 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-33 -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
OPEN YOUR EYES · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 129, 130, 131, 137, 138, 139 and 17 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 129-131 · LANDS ON BAR 132 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 143-145 · LANDS ON BAR 146 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 159 · LANDS ON BAR 160
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 161 · LANDS ON BAR 162

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 6 sections: 147 keep time and 23 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-33.

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

Questions

What BPM is Open Your Eyes?

132 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?

49 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 129, 130, 131, 137, 138, 139 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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