Heatseeker · AC/DC

151 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-24, 26-32 and 34-40, and 6 more places -- 56.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 162 BPM
HEATSEEKER · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 41, 71 and 107.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 12 sections: 130 keep time, 6 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-70.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART E
9 groovesCGEBS11+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heatseeker?

162 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Heatseeker hard to play on drums?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Heatseeker?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 41, 71 and 107.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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