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The Jack · AC/DC

EXERCISE 23 OF 41
Fill at bar 65
90 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART H
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART C
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJCHFAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Jack on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 5:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-29, ride through bars 30-33, snare through bars 34-35 and ride through bars 36-37, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 26-29 and 38-44, and 4 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-------x-----------x---x-------x-----------x---|
The Jack -- 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 34, 35, 49, 65, 71, 74 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-21 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-53 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Jack?

77 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Jack hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Jack?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 34, 35, 49, 65, 71, 74 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED