Third Eye · Tool

429 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 112 BPM, 12:06 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
429
LENGTH
12:06
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-42, 44-46 and 48, and 7 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
THIRD EYE · BAR 30
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

34 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 108, 115, 117, 119, 121, 123 and 89 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 115 · LANDS ON BAR 116
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 117 · LANDS ON BAR 118 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 121 · LANDS ON BAR 122 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

30 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

429 bars across 38 sections: 249 keep time, 99 are fills, 17 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-78.

CHORUS
PART AD
OUTRO 2
31 groovesQADCUEIDT+26Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Third Eye?

112 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Third Eye hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

429 bars, about 12:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 138 exercises over 43 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Third Eye?

34 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 108, 115, 117, 119, 121, 123 and 89 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 429 BARS ANALYSED
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