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Are You Ready · AC/DC

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 15 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Are You Ready on drums

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

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
34/100

silence through bars 1-14, snare through bars 15-108 and kick and crashes through bars 109-112.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Are You Ready -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-74 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED