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The Story In Your Eyes · The Moody Blues

The Story In Your Eyes · The Moody Blues
EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove H -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART J
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHEDJS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Story In Your Eyes on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-15, toms through bars 16-17 and hi-hat through bars 18-144.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- H, E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-25 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-114 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-118 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
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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