No Easy Way Out · Robert Tepper

141 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 18 and 29, and 11 more places -- 70.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 126 BPM
NO EASY WAY OUT · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 8 sections: 131 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-141.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACKIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Easy Way Out?

126 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 No Easy Way Out hard to play on drums?

48 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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.

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