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Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap · AC/DC

EXERCISE 4 OF 28
Groove C
76 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBGEK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
45/100

toms through bars 3-70, hi-hat through bars 71-78, toms through bars 79-120 and hi-hat through bars 121-128.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-30, 41-56 and 68-69, and 2 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x---------x-----|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 70 and 124.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-68 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-125 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 72-124 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap?

134 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 Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 70 and 124.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED