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T.N.T. · AC/DC

EXERCISE 14 OF 27
Join Part D to Chorus (bars 32-34)
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0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesHDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play T.N.T. on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
42/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-29, hi-hat through bars 30-39, kick and crashes through bars 40-43 and snare through bars 44-58, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-26 and 40-57 -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
T.N.T. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 27, 29, 37, 58, 60, 68 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- D, H -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 30-72 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is T.N.T.?

127 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 T.N.T. hard to play on drums?

42 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?

114 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 T.N.T.?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 27, 29, 37, 58, 60, 68 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED