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.

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

TEMPO

133 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

181

LENGTH

5:27

DIFFICULTY

57/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-64, toms through bars 65-66, hi-hat through bars 67-90, snare through bars 91-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-117, and 5 more changes after that.

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.

    29
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-----------------------x---------------------------------------|

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

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- G, Z -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
5. Bars 76-87 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Bars 102-117 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
7. Bars 119-178 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.