Easy Money · King Crimson

266 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 7:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
266
LENGTH
7:53
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 97-103, 105-107 and 109, and 14 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
EASY MONEY · BAR 97
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 224, 232, 235, 236, 242, 264 and 1 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 224 · LANDS ON BAR 225
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 232 · LANDS ON BAR 233
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 235-236 · LANDS ON BAR 237 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 242 · LANDS ON BAR 243

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

266 bars across 28 sections: 206 keep time, 7 are fills, 5 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

PART Z
BREAK
PART AA
PART AF
PART AK
CHORUS
PART AV
PART Y
PART BD
18 groovesALAVZANAF+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Easy Money?

135 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 Money 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

266 bars, about 7:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Easy Money?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 224, 232, 235, 236, 242, 264 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 266 BARS ANALYSED
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