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It's So Easy · Linda Ronstadt

EXERCISE 35 OF 43
3-bar fill at bar 72
71 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It's So Easy on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-95.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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, H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-33 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-53 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-62 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-71 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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