Touch Too Much · AC/DC

137 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 23 and 27, and 15 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
TOUCH TOO MUCH · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 42, 46, 67, 68, 69, 70 and 1 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 67-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 13 sections: 113 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-127.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART A
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART A
PART D
CHORUS 3
7 groovesFACDV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Touch Too Much?

120 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 Touch Too Much hard to play on drums?

58 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Touch Too Much?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 42, 46, 67, 68, 69, 70 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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