Ballbreaker · AC/DC

144 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-27 and 29-32, and 9 more places -- 40.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BALLBREAKER · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 92, 93 and 94.

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 14 sections: 117 keep time, 3 are fills, 6 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-134.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
PART D
6 groovesEDAIS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ballbreaker?

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 Ballbreaker 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Ballbreaker?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 92, 93 and 94.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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