Ride On · AC/DC

101 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 5:46 of playing on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-21, 34-53 and 66-67 -- 61.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
RIDE ON · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 5 sections: 62 keep time and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesBS5GFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ride On?

105 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Ride On hard to play on drums?

39 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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