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With Ears to See, And Eyes to Hear · Sleeping With Sirens

EXERCISE 13 OF 73
Join Part A to Part F (bars 11-13)
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PART A
PART F
PART Q
CHORUS
PART AE
PART AJ
CHORUS 2
PART AR
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesXARAEBDF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play With Ears to See, And Eyes to Hear on drums

139 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-21, snare through bars 22-98, toms through bars 99-102, snare through bars 103-108 and toms through bars 109-112, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-41, 47-48 and 79-81, and 1 more place -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----|
With Ears to See, And Eyes to Hear -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 19, 20, 24, 32, 44 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- X, AE -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-46 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 23-38 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is With Ears to See, And Eyes to Hear?

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

Is With Ears to See, And Eyes to Hear hard to play on drums?

59 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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 With Ears to See, And Eyes to Hear?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 19, 20, 24, 32, 44 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED