Simple Man | Lynyrd Skynyrd · Mike Sedmak

198 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 6:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 33-34 and 37-38, and 16 more places -- 35.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SIMPLE MAN | LYNYRD SKYNYRD · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 31, 32, 35, 36, 39, 40 and 10 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 21 sections: 137 keep time, 16 are fills, 15 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-75.

PART B
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 4
PART Y
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCHFBI+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Simple Man | Lynyrd Skynyrd?

125 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 Simple Man | Lynyrd Skynyrd hard to play on drums?

43 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 6:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Simple Man | Lynyrd Skynyrd?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 31, 32, 35, 36, 39, 40 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Mike Sedmak drum parts

AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →