The Story In Your Eyes · The Moody Blues

144 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 31-32 and 35-43, and 16 more places -- 54.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 172 BPM
THE STORY IN YOUR EYES · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 17, 29, 33 and 5 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 14 sections: 102 keep time, 11 are fills, 10 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-112.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART J
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHEDJS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Story In Your Eyes?

172 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Story In Your Eyes hard to play on drums?

55 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Story In Your Eyes?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 17, 29, 33 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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