For Those About To Rock · AC/DC

181 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 5:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31 and 33, and 18 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 133 BPM
FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 22, 42, 58, 66, 74, 82 and 11 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 10 sections: 87 keep time, 17 are fills, 59 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-21.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGAZLS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is For Those About To Rock?

133 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 For Those About To Rock hard to play on drums?

57 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 For Those About To Rock?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 22, 42, 58, 66, 74, 82 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
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