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Baby, Please Don't Go · AC/DC

EXERCISE 3 OF 25
Groove B -- Part B
71 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 47 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO 2
INTRO
PART B
PART E
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesABES5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Baby, Please Don't Go on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
70/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-68, snare through bars 69-132 and hi-hat through bars 133-145.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8 and 69-131 -- 49.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |-gxg-gxg-gxg-gxg|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |--x---x---x---x-|
Baby, Please Don't Go -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 26, 27, 38, 44, 54 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 55-133 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Baby, Please Don't Go?

120 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 Baby, Please Don't Go hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Baby, Please Don't Go?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 26, 27, 38, 44, 54 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED