Let Me Down Easy · Paolo Nutini

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18 and 20, and 28 more places -- 48.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
LET ME DOWN EASY · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 55.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 6 sections: 75 keep time, 2 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-80.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDEFS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Let Me Down Easy?

105 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 Let Me Down Easy hard to play on drums?

41 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 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 Let Me Down Easy?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 55.

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