Highway to hell · ACDC

76 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-24, 27-33 and 36-50, and 2 more places -- 91.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

How the song is built

76 bars across 4 sections: 63 keep time, 5 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Highway 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 Highway to hell hard to play on drums?

42 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?

76 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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