Easy Lover · Philip Bailey (ft. Phil Collins)

165 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-14, 17-29 and 33, and 29 more places -- 60% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 132 BPM
EASY LOVER · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 30, 31, 71 and 1 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 7 sections: 148 keep time, 7 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-165.

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

Questions

What BPM is Easy Lover?

132 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 Easy Lover hard to play on drums?

52 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?

165 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Lover?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 30, 31, 71 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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