Are You Ready · AC/DC

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:11 of playing, on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-46, 64-71 and 74, and 10 more places -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 107 BPM
ARE YOU READY · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 73.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 11 sections: 69 keep time, 1 is a fill, 20 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-107.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
8 groovesFBS1S9A+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Are You Ready?

107 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 Are You Ready hard to play on drums?

34 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Are You Ready?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 73.

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