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Ride On · AC/DC

EXERCISE 4 OF 13
Groove G -- Part G
47 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesBS5GFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ride On on drums

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

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
39/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-57, ride through bars 58-63, hi-hat through bars 64-68 and silence through bars 69-101.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x-----x-|
Ride On -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 21-37 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 34-69 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED