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Rock 'n' Roll Singer · AC/DC

EXERCISE 8 OF 47
Join Part F to Chorus 2 (bars 34-36)
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0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock 'n' Roll Singer on drums

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

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-93, kick and crashes through bars 94-95, toms through bars 96-97, hi-hat through bars 98-135, silence through bars 136-138 and hi-hat through bars 139-156, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Rock 'n' Roll Singer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- C, K -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 59-74 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 81-134 -- 10 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 134-157 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 153-167 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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