Ready Or Not · Fugees

189 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeFunk / Soul150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-42, 50-63 and 85-133, and 1 more place -- 57.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
READY OR NOT · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 11 sections: 139 keep time and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-133.

BREAK
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART G
BREAK 2
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCS3GFS8+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ready Or Not?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ready Or Not 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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