Highway To Hell v2 · AC/DC

89 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-25, 28 and 30, and 19 more places -- 63.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 116 BPM
HIGHWAY TO HELL V2 · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 3 sections: 82 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-34.

OUTRO
3 groovesBS2AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Highway To Hell v2?

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 v2 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 v2?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

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