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Ready For Love · Bad Company

EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove B -- Chorus 3 (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART C
PART H
CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ready For Love on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-21, snare through bars 22-37, toms through bars 38-41 and ride through bars 42-45, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    90                                                               91
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x-----------------------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-----------------------x-------------------------------x-------|x---------------x---------------------------------------x-------|
Ready For Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-49 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part S -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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