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Live Wire · AC DC

EXERCISE 5 OF 55
Groove D -- Part D
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
PART E
PART D
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Live Wire on drums

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

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-52, toms through bars 53-60, hi-hat through bars 61-84, toms through bars 85-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-110, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Live Wire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- B, C -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 49-61 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 57-76 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 79-163 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 82-112 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 109-171 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 137-151 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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