High Voltage · AC/DC

141 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-70, 72-104 and 106-140 -- 93.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 137 BPM
HIGH VOLTAGE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 3, 5, 71 and 105.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars: 132 keep time, 5 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-70.

OUTRO
1 grooveEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is High Voltage?

137 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 High Voltage 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 High Voltage?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 3, 5, 71 and 105.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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