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Second Sight · stratovarius

EXERCISE 35 OF 60
Run H2 · Part H (bars 65-80)
135 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAHABLF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Second Sight on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, silence through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-48, ride through bars 49-50, hi-hat through bars 51-62 and snare through bars 63-64, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 43-45, and 16 more places -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Second Sight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 8, 35, 36, 41, 42 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, AB -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-20 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-37 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-47 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-81 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-111 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Second Sight?

140 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 Second Sight hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Second Sight?

17 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 8, 35, 36, 41, 42 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED