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No Easy Way Out · Robert Tepper

No Easy Way Out · Robert Tepper
EXERCISE 9 OF 18
Groove E
122 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACKIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Easy Way Out on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
48/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
No Easy Way Out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 15-29 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 38-83 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 83-141 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED