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Easy Money · King Crimson

EXERCISE 28 OF 81
Run AK1 · Part AK (bars 83-96)
159 / 266 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AK
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
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 7
JOIN · 21
LINK · 4
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Easy Money on drums

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.

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
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
266
LENGTH
7:53
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-14 and toms through bars 15-17, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    97
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----x-------x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |----x---------x-|
Easy Money -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- AL, AN -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BD -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-46 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part AA and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part AF and Part AG -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part AF and Part AG -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 77-90 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part AK and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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