Rock 'n' Roll Singer · AC/DC

168 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-30 and 36-49, and 7 more places -- 44.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
ROCK 'N' ROLL SINGER · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 53, 81, 84, 97, 119, 156 and 2 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 20 sections: 121 keep time, 8 are fills, 13 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-30.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
PART F
7 groovesCKFAH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock 'n' Roll Singer?

130 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 Rock 'n' Roll Singer hard to play on drums?

44 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Rock 'n' Roll Singer?

8 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 53, 81, 84, 97, 119, 156 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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