Ready Steady Go · L'Arc〜en〜Ciel

134 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-27 and 29-34, and 17 more places -- 53.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 144 BPM
READY STEADY GO · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 35, 36, 43 and 16 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 7 sections: 106 keep time, 22 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-34.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
2 groovesDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ready Steady Go?

144 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 Ready Steady Go hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Ready Steady Go?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 35, 36, 43 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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