Big Balls · AC/DC

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 2:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 33-38 and 49-54, and 2 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BIG BALLS · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 32, 39, 48 and 2 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 6 sections: 44 keep time, 8 are fills and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Big Balls?

105 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 Big Balls hard to play on drums?

43 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Big Balls?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 32, 39, 48 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED
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