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I'm Ready · Humble Pie

I'm Ready · Humble Pie
EXERCISE 7 OF 73
Groove F -- Part F
126 / 251 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
PART F
CHORUS
PART O
PART K
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART K
CHORUS 5
PART K
PART F
OUTRO
11 groovesHKFS3S2+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I'm Ready on drums

251 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
8:22
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-14, silence through bars 15-27, toms through bars 28-29, silence through bars 30-32 and snare through bars 33-37, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43, 45 and 47, and 36 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-x-----|
BD |x-x---x-----x-x-|
I'm Ready -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 61, 62, 64, 70, 74, 83 and 53 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- H, J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 33-49 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 54-87 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 66-121 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 70-89 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I'm Ready?

120 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 I'm Ready hard to play on drums?

45 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 8:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 I'm Ready?

19 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 61, 62, 64, 70, 74, 83 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED