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Let There Be Rock · AC/DC

EXERCISE 2 OF 25
Groove E -- Chorus
123 / 272 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 108 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Let There Be Rock on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
272
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
74/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-75, snare through bars 76-78, silence through bars 79-81, hi-hat through bars 82-155 and snare through bars 156-158, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Let There Be Rock -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-78 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-258 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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