Ready To Die · Andrew W.K.

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 2:52 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 21-27 and 29-36, and 2 more places -- 70.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 95 BPM
READY TO DIE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 60.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 6 sections: 59 keep time, 1 is a fill and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-36.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ready To Die?

95 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 To Die hard to play on drums?

43 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Ready To Die?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 60.

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