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The Eagle Flies Alone · Arch Enemy

EXERCISE 23 OF 54
Fill at bar 65 (a small one)
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0 / 54 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJBOUH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Eagle Flies Alone on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49, snare through bars 50-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-73, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-64, 74-88 and 131, and 3 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Eagle Flies Alone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 25, 29, 33, 49, 65, 73 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- J -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-50 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-99 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part S11 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Eagle Flies Alone?

129 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 The Eagle Flies Alone hard to play on drums?

60 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 The Eagle Flies Alone?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 25, 29, 33, 49, 65, 73 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED