Can't Stand Still · AC/DC

98 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-93 -- 71.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 114 BPM
CAN'T STAND STILL · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 4 sections: 92 keep time, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-93.

PART A
CHORUS
4 groovesBAS4S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Can't Stand Still?

114 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 Can't Stand Still hard to play on drums?

50 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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