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Heatseeker · AC/DC

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART E
9 groovesCGEBS11+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heatseeker on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 2-83, snare through bars 84-87, hi-hat through bars 88-99, snare through bars 100-107, hi-hat through bars 108-143 and snare through bars 144-147, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- C, G -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-137 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 50-87 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 103-133 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 130-148 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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