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Big Balls · AC/DC

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Big Balls on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
43/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-55, toms through bars 56-57, hi-hat through bars 58-67 and kick and crashes through bars 68-70.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

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 -- D, C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 34 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?

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