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Battle Ready · Otep

Battle Ready · Otep
EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove I -- Chorus 2
0 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
BREAK 2
OUTRO
10 groovesIMCZS15+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Battle Ready on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-32, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 37-39 and 41-43, and 7 more places -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Battle Ready -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 32, 40, 52 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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, Z -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-20 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-25 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Bars 32-49 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Battle Ready?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Battle Ready hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Battle Ready?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 32, 40, 52 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED