Let's Get It Up · AC/DC

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-36, 56-61 and 72-77, and 2 more places -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 109 BPM
LET'S GET IT UP · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 62, 63, 65, 67, 78, 98 and 2 more.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BARS 62-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
LOOP · 109 BPM
BARS 98-100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 7 sections: 77 keep time, 13 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-97.

PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHEDKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Let's Get It Up?

109 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 Let's Get It Up hard to play on drums?

44 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Let's Get It Up?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 62, 63, 65, 67, 78, 98 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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