Hard As A Rock · AC/DC

127 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31, 33 and 35, and 8 more places -- 49.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
HARD AS A ROCK · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 37, 38, 66, 67, 86, 87 and 4 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 86-87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 7 sections: 102 keep time, 10 are fills, 8 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-58.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDABMS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hard As A Rock?

116 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 Hard As A Rock hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Hard As A Rock?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 37, 38, 66, 67, 86, 87 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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