Give Up · ACxDC

116 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 95-101 -- 6.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
GIVE UP · BAR 95
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52 and 7 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 8 sections: 30 keep time, 13 are fills, 61 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-103.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAPS2TY+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Give Up?

110 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 Give Up hard to play on drums?

54 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Give Up?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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