So Easy (To Fall in Love) · Olivia Dean

69 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 1:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
1:58
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9, 11 and 13-14, and 1 more place -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SO EASY (TO FALL IN LOVE) · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 15, 36, 37 and 5 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 5-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 9 sections: 41 keep time, 11 are fills, 3 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-54.

COUNT-IN
PART F
PART L
PART J
CHORUS
BREAK 2
OUTRO
8 groovesMFLJS8+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is So Easy (To Fall in Love)?

140 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 So Easy (To Fall in Love) hard to play on drums?

45 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 1:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in So Easy (To Fall in Love)?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 15, 36, 37 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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