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Ring My Bell · Anita Ward

Ring My Bell · Anita Ward
EXERCISE 19 OF 33
Groove K -- Part K
245 / 255 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesABKJMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ring My Bell on drums

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

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
255
LENGTH
8:10
DIFFICULTY
48/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- A, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 126-143 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 152-202 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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