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Take It Easy · The Eagles

EXERCISE 8 OF 15
Fill at bar 105 (a small one)
102 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take It Easy on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-115 and kick and crashes through bars 116-117.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-26, 28-36 and 38-60, and 6 more places -- 84.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Take It Easy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 61, 77, 105, 111 and 115.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Take It Easy?

139 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 Take It Easy hard to play on drums?

49 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Take It Easy?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 61, 77, 105, 111 and 115.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED