Let There Be Rock · AC/DC

272 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 5:58 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
272
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-48, 83-128 and 163-193 -- 46.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 182 BPM
LET THERE BE ROCK · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 49, 65, 69, 77, 81 and 8 more.

LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

272 bars across 10 sections: 232 keep time, 14 are fills, 18 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-48.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
6 groovesECS3S6S10+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Let There Be Rock?

182 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Let There Be Rock hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

272 bars, about 5:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 There Be Rock?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 49, 65, 69, 77, 81 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 272 BARS ANALYSED
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