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Have A Drink On Me · AC/DC

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove E -- Chorus
0 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 52 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART N
CHORUS 4
PART H
8 groovesEHGNB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Have A Drink On Me on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-33, snare through bars 34-35, hi-hat through bars 36-61, snare through bars 62-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-112, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-18, 28-33 and 36-42, and 7 more places -- 45.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------x---|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Have A Drink On Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 11, 19, 43, 71, 96, 112 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- E, G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-31 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 91-116 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Have A Drink On Me?

115 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 Have A Drink On Me hard to play on drums?

53 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Have A Drink On Me?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 11, 19, 43, 71, 96, 112 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED