Ready To Fly · Masayoshi Takanaka

235 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 7:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
235
LENGTH
7:22
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6, 22-28 and 32-36, and 12 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
READY TO FLY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 184, 192, 210, 213, 214, 215 and 8 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 184 · LANDS ON BAR 185
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 192 · LANDS ON BAR 193
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 210 · LANDS ON BAR 211 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 213-217 · LANDS ON BAR 218 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

235 bars across 18 sections: 181 keep time, 14 are fills and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-60.

BREAK
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART D
PART AH
PART F
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBFRAHD+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ready To Fly?

128 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 Fly hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

235 bars, about 7:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 24 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 To Fly?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 184, 192, 210, 213, 214, 215 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 235 BARS ANALYSED
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