Get Ready · Bon Jovi

158 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-54, 82-95 and 139-152 -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
GET READY · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 48, 56, 57, 81, 97 and 7 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 56-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 97-98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 12 sections: 106 keep time, 13 are fills, 16 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-134.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART T
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLDTQE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Get Ready?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Get Ready hard to play on drums?

56 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Get Ready?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 48, 56, 57, 81, 97 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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