Ready To Let Go · Cage The Elephant

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 23-25 and 27-29, and 6 more places -- 79.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
READY TO LET GO · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 30, 31, 76 and 77.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars: 73 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-75.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ready To Let Go?

100 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 Let Go hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Ready To Let Go?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 30, 31, 76 and 77.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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