If You Want Blood (Original) · AC/DC

158 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64-69, 88-102 and 137-148 -- 22.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
IF YOU WANT BLOOD (ORIGINAL) · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 10, 47, 48, 52, 83 and 13 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 83-86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 14 sections: 105 keep time, 19 are fills, 11 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 137-158.

PART S1
PART C
PART F
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKFEAC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is If You Want Blood (Original)?

140 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 If You Want Blood (Original) hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in If You Want Blood (Original)?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 10, 47, 48, 52, 83 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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