Easy · Lionel Richie new

69 bars, 4:02, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Hip Hop / ReggaeElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 20 more places -- 37.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 68 BPM
EASY · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 13, 20, 21, 37, 38, 46 and 3 more.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 7 sections: 50 keep time, 9 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-33.

CHORUS
PART E
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Easy?

68 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?

47 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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 Easy?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 13, 20, 21, 37, 38, 46 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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