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Give Up · ACxDC

Give Up · ACxDC
EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove T -- Outro
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0 / 37 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Give Up on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30, ride through bars 31-35, hi-hat through bars 36-48, ride through bars 49-88 and snare through bars 89-101, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    95
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
Give Up -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- T -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 12 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 65-105 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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