Private Eye · Alkaline Trio

141 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 33-40 and 55, and 13 more places -- 57.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
PRIVATE EYE · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 32, 48, 49, 50, 56 and 16 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 48-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 7 sections: 111 keep time, 22 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Private Eye?

160 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 Private Eye hard to play on drums?

54 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Private Eye?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 32, 48, 49, 50, 56 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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