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Big Gun · AC/DC

EXERCISE 25 OF 33
Groove P -- Outro
129 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART A
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDHPAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Big Gun on drums

143 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
45/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-43, snare through bars 44-45, hi-hat through bars 46-101 and kick and crashes through bars 102-105, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-34, 46-67 and 82, and 3 more places -- 44.7% 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-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Big Gun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 8, 35, 36, 43, 68 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-44 -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 74-104 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 4 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Big Gun?

135 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 Gun hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Big Gun?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 8, 35, 36, 43, 68 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED