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Easy Lover · Philip Bailey, Phil Collins

Easy Lover · Philip Bailey, Phil Collins
EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDZRUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Easy Lover on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-75, snare through bars 76-81, hi-hat through bars 82-119, snare through bars 120-125 and hi-hat through bars 126-153.

The beat

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.

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    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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- D, Z -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-115 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-122 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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