Long Way To The Top · AC/DC

168 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-45, 47-87 and 102-108 -- 46.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
LONG WAY TO THE TOP · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 125.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 125 · LANDS ON BAR 126
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 7 sections: 154 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-87.

CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFJBDS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Long Way To The Top?

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 Long Way To The Top hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Long Way To The Top?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 125.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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