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Highway To Hell - AC/DC · Jokker

EXERCISE 10 OF 20
Groove G (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 20 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
6 groovesFCS1S6S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Highway To Hell - AC/DC on drums

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

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
41/100

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 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 53-59 and 65-79, and 1 more place -- 40.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Highway To Hell - AC/DC -- 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 16 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 -- F, C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 30-65 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Highway To Hell - AC/DC?

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 - AC/DC 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 29 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 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 - AC/DC?

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