Get It Hot · AC/DC

81 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-17 and 19, and 7 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
GET IT HOT · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 32, 56, 79 and 1 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 3-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 79-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 9 sections: 59 keep time, 7 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-24.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEGNLS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Get It Hot?

128 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 Get It Hot hard to play on drums?

58 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?

81 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Get It Hot?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 32, 56, 79 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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