Live Wire · AC DC

192 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-25, 29-35 and 51-52, and 6 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
LIVE WIRE · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 85 and 13 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 56-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 114-116 · LANDS ON BAR 117 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 118 · LANDS ON BAR 119 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 22 sections: 111 keep time, 20 are fills, 15 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-35.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 5
PART C
PART I
12 groovesBCEIS1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Live Wire?

132 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 Live Wire hard to play on drums?

43 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 5:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Live Wire?

4 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 85 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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