Problem Child · AC/DC

178 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 18 more places -- 44.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 137 BPM
PROBLEM CHILD · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 175, 176, 177 and 178.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 175-178 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 10 sections: 161 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-174.

PART B
PART C
PART B
PART F
PART B
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBCFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Problem Child?

137 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 Problem Child hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Problem Child?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 175, 176, 177 and 178.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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