(|) Back In Black · AC/DC

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 11 more places -- 53.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
(|) BACK IN BLACK · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 58, 68, 74, 84, 92 and 1 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 5 sections: 77 keep time, 7 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-24.

CHORUS
PART I
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBPIMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is (|) Back In Black?

92 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 (|) Back In Black hard to play on drums?

45 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 (|) Back In Black?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 58, 68, 74, 84, 92 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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