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Hard As A Rock · AC/DC

EXERCISE 14 OF 28
Fill at bar 95 (a small one)
112 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDABMS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hard As A Rock on drums

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

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
37/100

hi-hat through bars 1-96, silence through bars 97-98 and hi-hat through bars 99-127.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Hard As A Rock -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- D, A -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-110 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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