The Light Behind Your Eyes · My Chemical Romance

43 bars, 2:18, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
43
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-17 and 27-33, and 1 more place -- 61.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 75 BPM
THE LIGHT BEHIND YOUR EYES · BAR 8
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 18, 22, 26 and 2 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

43 bars across 5 sections: 27 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-17.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDGS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Light Behind Your Eyes?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Light Behind Your Eyes hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

43 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Light Behind Your Eyes?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 18, 22, 26 and 2 more.

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