Stiff Upper Lip · AC/DC

111 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-50, 52-81 and 92-108 -- 77.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 123 BPM
STIFF UPPER LIP · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 51, 91 and 111.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 111
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 7 sections: 101 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-50.

PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
6 groovesCBFS2S6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stiff Upper Lip?

123 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 Stiff Upper Lip hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Stiff Upper Lip?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 51, 91 and 111.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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