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Highway to Hell (E Standard) · AC/DC

EXERCISE 9 OF 20
Part C into Chorus with the record (bars 23-30)
67 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
6 groovesFCS1S7S6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Highway to Hell (E Standard) 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 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.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Highway to Hell (E Standard) -- 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 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-61 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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