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Long Way To The Top · AC/DC

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 22 PASSED · 76 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFJBDS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Long Way To The Top on drums

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

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-89, kick and crashes through bars 90-93, snare through bars 94-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-168.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Long Way To The Top -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- F, J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-97 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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