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Easily Erased · Boundaries

EXERCISE 27 OF 55
Fill at bar 113 and 161 (a small one)
79 / 191 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, PART AD
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART AD
PART S12
10 groovesJGADS12AP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Easily Erased on drums

191 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 190 BPM, 3:07 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-46, toms through bars 47-57, ride through bars 58-60, silence through bars 61-68 and toms through bars 69-72, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 17 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    91
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
BD |xxx-x-x-x-x-|
Easily Erased -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 11, 12, 14 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- J, AM -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 56-75 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 113-144 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part AB and Part AD -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 145-175 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Easily Erased?

190 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Easily Erased hard to play on drums?

56 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Easily Erased?

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 11, 12, 14 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED