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Stiff Upper Lip · AC/DC

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 20 PASSED · 84 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
6 groovesCBFS2S6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stiff Upper Lip on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
45/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-11, silence through bars 12-13 and hi-hat through bars 14-111.

The beat

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Stiff Upper Lip -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 83-111 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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