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Open Your Eyes · Snow Patrol

EXERCISE 19 OF 42
Groove M
128 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART B
PART C
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesNIBCE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Open Your Eyes on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
49/100

ride through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-65, toms through bars 66-129 and ride through bars 130-177.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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