Highway To Hell · AC/DC

95 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-24, 37-43 and 46, and 1 more place -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 116 BPM
HIGHWAY TO HELL · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 25, 26, 51, 52, 60, 61 and 4 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 60-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 7 sections: 68 keep time, 10 are fills, 6 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-50.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
7 groovesCFHS1S6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Highway To Hell?

116 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 Highway To Hell hard to play on drums?

53 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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 Highway To Hell?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 25, 26, 51, 52, 60, 61 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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