People get Ready · Rod Steward - Jeff Beck

86 bars, 4:47, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-18 and 21-85 -- 97.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 72 BPM
PEOPLE GET READY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 86.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 86
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 4 sections: 80 keep time, 1 is a fill and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-85.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is People get Ready?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is People get Ready hard to play on drums?

46 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in People get Ready?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 86.

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