High Way To Hell · AC-DC

85 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7 and 9-74 -- 85.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HIGH WAY TO HELL · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 3 sections: 80 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-74.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is High Way To Hell?

120 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 Way To Hell hard to play on drums?

43 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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