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Highway To Hell · AC/DC

EXERCISE 17 OF 22
Run F1 · Part F (bars 58-76)
81 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
7 groovesCFHS1S6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Highway To Hell on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-24, toms through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-50, toms through bars 51-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-62, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Highway To Hell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Bars 58-95 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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