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Easy Lover · Philip Bailey (ft. Phil Collins)

Easy Lover · Philip Bailey (ft. Phil Collins)
EXERCISE 23 OF 28
Join Part G to Outro (bars 89-91)
156 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHGLAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Easy Lover on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, toms through bars 2-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-165.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Easy Lover -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-98 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 89-105 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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