BIG BALLS · AC/DC

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 2:33 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
67
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
24/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17 and 25-31, and 4 more places -- 37.3% 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 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 7 sections: 37 keep time and 24 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-15.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDCBFill 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?

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 3 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 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.

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