Rock Or Bust · AC/DC

148 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:02 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-41, 43 and 45, and 13 more places -- 86.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 195 BPM
ROCK OR BUST · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 4 sections: 109 keep time, 32 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-40.

CHORUS
4 groovesBS1S3AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock Or Bust?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Rock Or Bust hard to play on drums?

43 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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