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Ready to Rock · Band-Maid

EXERCISE 15 OF 77
Groove N
69 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
PART A
PART O
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART AH
PART O
CHORUS 4
PART AH
PART S22
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesLAHAOG+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ready to Rock on drums

151 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, toms through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-10, toms through bars 11-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-35, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-16, 19 and 29-31, and 11 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Ready to Rock -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- L -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 19-32 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ready to Rock?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ready to Rock hard to play on drums?

63 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 18 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 to Rock?

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED