← SONGS

Simple Man | Lynyrd Skynyrd · Mike Sedmak

EXERCISE 1 OF 74
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 198 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 69 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
PART Y
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCHFBI+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 18
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Simple Man | Lynyrd Skynyrd on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-15, hi-hat through bars 16-20, ride through bars 21-25, snare through bars 26-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-32, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Simple Man | Lynyrd Skynyrd -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-26 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-53 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-60 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-57 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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