Its So Easy · Guns N' Roses

123 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockMetal150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-17, 19 and 21, and 10 more places -- 68.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 152 BPM
ITS SO EASY · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 6.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 5 sections: 99 keep time, 2 are fills, 16 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-40.

CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Its So Easy?

152 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 Its So Easy hard to play on drums?

47 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Its So Easy?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 6.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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