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Are You Ready. · Three Days Grace

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove I -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Are You Ready. on drums

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.

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
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-28, toms through bars 29-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-40, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x--x|
BD |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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- I -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-17 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-21 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-37 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-61 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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