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Get Ready (Short Version) · Rare Earth

EXERCISE 9 OF 15
Join Chorus to Outro (bars 57-59)
90 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCGAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Get Ready (Short Version) on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
33/100

snare through bars 1-57, hi-hat through bars 58-69 and snare through bars 70-96.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 25-47 and 49-57, and 2 more places -- 77.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Get Ready (Short Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Get Ready (Short Version)?

132 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 Get Ready (Short Version) hard to play on drums?

33 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 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED