Jailbreak · AC/DC

146 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 29-30 and 38-52, and 4 more places -- 43.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 134 BPM
JAILBREAK · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 53, 54, 72 and 2 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 31-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 53-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 12 sections: 122 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-146.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
7 groovesCBAGS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jailbreak?

134 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 Jailbreak hard to play on drums?

50 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Jailbreak?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 53, 54, 72 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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