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Highway To Hell v2 · AC/DC

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove B -- Outro
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0 / 9 PASSED · 54 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
3 groovesBS2AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Highway To Hell v2 on drums

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.

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
89
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
41/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-6, snare through bars 7-34, hi-hat through bars 35-36 and snare through bars 37-89.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
HF |x---x---x---x-x-|
Highway To Hell v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED