Are You Ready. · Three Days Grace

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 2:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 41-47 and 61-64 -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 105 BPM
ARE YOU READY. · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 28, 36, 40 and 4 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 11 sections: 38 keep time, 10 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-27.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART B
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIBGPD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Are You Ready.?

105 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Are You Ready.?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 28, 36, 40 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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