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BIG BALLS · AC/DC

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove C -- Part C
0 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BIG BALLS on drums

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.

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
24/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-22, snare through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-38, snare through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-54, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
BIG BALLS -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- C, D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 1-26 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED