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Its So Easy · Guns N' Roses

EXERCISE 9 OF 14
Groove H -- Outro
100 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Its So Easy on drums

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

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-76, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-x---x---x-----|
Its So Easy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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