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Let's Get It Up · AC/DC

EXERCISE 31 OF 32
Run H3 · Outro 2 (bars 69-103)
98 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Let's Get It Up on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
44/100

snare through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-103.

The beat

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.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-------x---|
HH |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Let's Get It Up -- 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 62, 63, 65, 67, 78, 98 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- H, E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through Part D and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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