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If You Want Blood (Original) · AC/DC

EXERCISE 3 OF 49
Groove D -- Part D
55 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT
PART S1
PART C
PART F
PART E
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKFEAC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play If You Want Blood (Original) on drums

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

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
46/100

toms through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, toms through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-46, snare through bars 47-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-118, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    64
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
If You Want Blood (Original) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- K, E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part S1 and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-67 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 64-88 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part A -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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