Highway to Hell (E Standard) · 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 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29-33 and 53-59, and 3 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
HIGHWAY TO HELL (E STANDARD) · BAR 27
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 8 sections: 68 keep time, 10 are fills, 6 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-24.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
6 groovesFCS1S7S6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Highway to Hell (E Standard)?

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 (E Standard) 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 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 5 sittings, about 25 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 (E Standard)?

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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