Ezy Ryder · Jimi Hendrix

26 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 0:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
26
LENGTH
0:52
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-17 and 20-21, and 1 more place -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
EZY RYDER · BAR 12
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 10, 18 and 22.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

26 bars: 23 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ezy Ryder?

120 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 Ezy Ryder hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

26 bars, about 0:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ezy Ryder?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 10, 18 and 22.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 26 BARS ANALYSED
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