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The Eyes Of Medusa · Symphony X

EXERCISE 13 OF 74
Groove O
52 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P, CHORUS 2, PART N
PART C
PART P
PART S
PART N
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART Y
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAACYNS+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Eyes Of Medusa on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-14, hi-hat through bars 15-22, ride through bars 23-29, hi-hat through bars 30-56 and ride through bars 57-59, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx-xxxxx-xxx-xxx|
The Eyes Of Medusa -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA, P -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part S -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 20-79 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 30-46 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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