Ring My Bell · Anita Ward

255 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 8:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
255
LENGTH
8:10
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 110 more places -- 49% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
RING MY BELL · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 48, 56, 60 and 13 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 13 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 176 · LANDS ON BAR 177
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

255 bars across 9 sections: 223 keep time and 19 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 205-249.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesABKJMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ring My Bell?

125 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 Ring My Bell hard to play on drums?

48 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

255 bars, about 8:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 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 Ring My Bell?

4 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 48, 56, 60 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 255 BARS ANALYSED
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