Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be · AC/DC

135 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-42, 53-75 and 86-99, and 4 more places -- 51.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
HELL AIN'T A BAD PLACE TO BE · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 3, 13, 15, 19, 43, 47 and 13 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 11 sections: 78 keep time, 19 are fills, 27 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-42.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGIBQS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be?

128 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 Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be hard to play on drums?

46 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:12 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 Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 3, 13, 15, 19, 43, 47 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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