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Easier Gone · Jason Aldean and Brittany Aldean

Easier Gone · Jason Aldean and Brittany Aldean
EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 35 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART J
PART A
OUTRO
6 groovesDAEJS5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Easier Gone on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-36, silence through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-68, toms through bars 69-72, hi-hat through bars 73-82 and toms through bars 83-84, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-32, 41-47 and 49-55, and 3 more places -- 39.1% 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-------|
Easier Gone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 48, 56, 64, 68, 72, 73 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D, A -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 15-58 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 33-61 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 60-69 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 62-76 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 76-96 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Easier Gone?

108 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Easier Gone hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Easier Gone?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 48, 56, 64, 68, 72, 73 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED