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The Everlasting Gaze · Smashing Pumpkins

EXERCISE 18 OF 54
Groove M -- Break
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PART D
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART U
PART S9
BREAK
PART AI
12 groovesGOS9UD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Everlasting Gaze on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 2-31, ride through bars 32-53, hi-hat through bars 54-78, ride through bars 79-99, hi-hat through bars 100-101 and silence through bars 102-108, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-25 and 60-66, and 1 more place -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 26, 39, 45, 73, 78 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- G, U -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 39-125 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Everlasting Gaze?

148 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 Everlasting Gaze hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Everlasting Gaze?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 26, 39, 45, 73, 78 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED