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Jailbreak · AC/DC

EXERCISE 23 OF 27
Join Chorus 2 to Part G (bars 88-90)
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0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART G
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART A
OUTRO
7 groovesCBAGS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jailbreak on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-52, toms through bars 53-54, hi-hat through bars 55-93, kick and crashes through bars 94-111 and silence through bars 112-114, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Jailbreak -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 55-89 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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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