hells bells - best of · AC/DC

134 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37-45, and 9 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 108 BPM
HELLS BELLS - BEST OF · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 52, 64, 76, 80, 100 and 4 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 14 sections: 94 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-51.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART D
8 groovesHDS1RB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is hells bells - best of?

108 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 hells bells - best of hard to play on drums?

41 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?

134 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 hells bells - best of?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 52, 64, 76, 80, 100 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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