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Sin City · AC/DC

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove E -- Chorus 2
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0 / 42 PASSED · 64 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEMGJC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sin City on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-11, hi-hat through bars 12-144 and kick and crashes through bars 145-148.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-17, 39-45 and 47-61, and 4 more places -- 44.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 63, 82, 84 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- E, M -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 8-21 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-147 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-88 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 85-117 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sin City?

124 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 Sin City hard to play on drums?

42 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sin City?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 63, 82, 84 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED