Easy · Faith No More

47 bars, 2:54, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
47
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 11, and 4 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 64 BPM
EASY · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 12, 13, 15, 17, 19 and 16 more.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 64 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

47 bars across 6 sections: 16 keep time, 22 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-9.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCIOXS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Easy?

64 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 Easy hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

47 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Easy?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 12, 13, 15, 17, 19 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 47 BARS ANALYSED
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