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So Easy (To Fall in Love) · Olivia Dean

EXERCISE 6 OF 32
Groove E
28 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play So Easy (To Fall in Love) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
1:58
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-23, ride through bars 24-35, hi-hat through bars 36-38, ride through bars 39-54 and silence through bars 55-62, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
SD |--x-----x-----xx|--x-----x-------|
BD |------x---------|x-----x---------|
So Easy (To Fall in Love) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- F, K -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 8-29 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-55 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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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