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Private Eye · Alkaline Trio

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove A -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Private Eye on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-56, snare through bars 57-72, hi-hat through bars 73-96, snare through bars 97-112, hi-hat through bars 113-124 and snare through bars 125-141.

The beat

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.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Private Eye -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- A, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-55 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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