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Back in Black · AC-DC

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Back in Black on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-66, snare through bars 67-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-99.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-13 and 15-17, and 14 more places -- 49.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Back in Black -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 14, 18, 30 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-42 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-72 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 10 minutes.
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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?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Back in Black?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 14, 18, 30 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED