Sweet Candy · AC/DC

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-20, 22-36 and 38-52, and 1 more place -- 87.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 96 BPM
SWEET CANDY · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 21, 37, 53 and 75.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 75
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 5 sections: 67 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-72.

PART B
CHORUS
5 groovesCBS1S4S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Candy?

96 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 Sweet Candy hard to play on drums?

41 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sweet Candy?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 21, 37, 53 and 75.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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