The Eyes Of Medusa · Symphony X

131 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 20 and 30-31, and 6 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE EYES OF MEDUSA · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 45 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 6-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 12 sections: 59 keep time, 51 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-15.

PART C
PART S
PART N
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART Y
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAACYNS+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Eyes Of Medusa?

120 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 Eyes Of Medusa hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Eyes Of Medusa?

20 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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