Earned It · The Weeknd

149 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 3:44 of playing on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
19/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-39, 41-54 and 65-87, and 2 more places -- 95% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
EARNED IT · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 3 sections: 141 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-149.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Earned It?

120 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 Earned It hard to play on drums?

19 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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