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hells bells - best of · AC/DC

EXERCISE 3 OF 42
Groove R -- Part R (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play hells bells - best of on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-24, hi-hat through bars 25-130 and toms through bars 131-134.

The beat

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.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
hells bells - best of -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- H, D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 94-112 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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