Squealer · AC/DC

174 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-45 and 51-54 -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
SQUEALER · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 11 sections: 159 keep time and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-45.

PART A
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART F
PART B
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCABFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Squealer?

132 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 Squealer hard to play on drums?

40 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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