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The Absent Eyes · PM Nytt + Klart

The Absent Eyes · PM Nytt + Klart
EXERCISE 36 OF 72
Groove Y -- Part Y
95 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART Y
PART AD
PART AF
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesDAFAFAD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Absent Eyes on drums

165 bars at 183 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-18, ride through bars 19-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-49, hi-hat through bars 50-57 and snare through bars 58-65, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 25-27, and 5 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
The Absent Eyes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 28 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, AF -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-18 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-33 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus 3 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Y -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 78-90 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Absent Eyes?

183 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 The Absent Eyes hard to play on drums?

63 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Absent Eyes?

18 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 28 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED