It's So Easy · Linda Ronstadt

95 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 15 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
IT'S SO EASY · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 32, 34, 44 and 10 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 15 sections: 50 keep time, 16 are fills, 2 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-95.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesDBHS1L+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is It's So Easy?

115 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 It's So Easy hard to play on drums?

46 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 It's So Easy?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 32, 34, 44 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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