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Ready To Die · Andrew W.K.

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ready To Die on drums

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

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-40 and snare through bars 41-68.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Ready To Die -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED