Easy Livin' · Uriah Heep

97 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-23, 25 and 27-45, and 5 more places -- 71.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
EASY LIVIN' · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 95 and 96.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 95-96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 3 sections: 89 keep time, 2 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-50.

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

Questions

What BPM is Easy Livin'?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Easy Livin' hard to play on drums?

60 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 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 Easy Livin'?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 95 and 96.

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