Easy Lover · Philip Bailey, Phil Collins

153 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-8, 10-23 and 43-48, and 11 more places -- 46.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 134 BPM
EASY LOVER · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 9, 24, 25, 64, 65 and 3 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 64-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 11 sections: 129 keep time, 9 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-63.

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

Questions

What BPM is Easy Lover?

134 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?

51 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?

153 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 9, 24, 25, 64, 65 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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