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Touch Too Much · AC/DC

EXERCISE 11 OF 39
Run C1 · Part C (bars 14-26)
104 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Touch Too Much on drums

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

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-68, toms through bars 69-70, hi-hat through bars 71-135 and silence through bars 136-137.

The beat

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.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x-x-x-x-|
Touch Too Much -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-119 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 33-47 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-74 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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