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TNT · AC/DC

EXERCISE 26 OF 28
Play the whole song with the record
104 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 113 BARS LIT
PART C
PART D
BREAK
CHORUS
PART H
PART D
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGDSCH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play TNT on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
34/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, toms through bars 2-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-27, silence through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-36 and toms through bars 37-39, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-26 and 40-57 -- 37% 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---|
TNT -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 78, 79, 95 and 111.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, G, P -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-28 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 30-61 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-59 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-96 -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is TNT?

125 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 TNT hard to play on drums?

34 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?

113 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 TNT?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 78, 79, 95 and 111.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED