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Squealer · AC/DC

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove A -- Part A
0 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 49 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
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
GROOVE · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Squealer on drums

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

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
40/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-30, hi-hat through bars 31-35, kick and crashes through bars 36-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-174.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Squealer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- A, C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 47-84 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 101-121 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED