Ready For Love · Bad Company

147 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-5, 42-43 and 90-100, and 2 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 131 BPM
READY FOR LOVE · BARS 90-91
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 30 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BARS 22-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 11 sections: 90 keep time, 36 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-21.

PART C
PART H
PART C
PART S
PART V
PART AH
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBCFSV+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ready For Love?

131 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 Ready For Love hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Ready For Love?

11 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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