When I Look Into Your Eyes · Firehouse

53 bars, 2:50, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
53
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10 and 15-17, and 4 more places -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
WHEN I LOOK INTO YOUR EYES · BAR 8
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 6, 18, 26, 30, 34, 38 and 4 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

53 bars across 4 sections: 34 keep time, 10 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-25.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEGS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When I Look Into 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 When I Look Into Your Eyes hard to play on drums?

42 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?

53 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 When I Look Into Your Eyes?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 6, 18, 26, 30, 34, 38 and 4 more.

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