What Do You Do For Money Honey · AC/DC

90 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 34-35 and 38-40, and 5 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WHAT DO YOU DO FOR MONEY HONEY · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 27, 28, 29, 59, 66, 67 and 2 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 27-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 9 sections: 61 keep time, 8 are fills, 10 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-45.

PART A
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
6 groovesKGADS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What Do You Do For Money Honey?

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 What Do You Do For Money Honey hard to play on drums?

32 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in What Do You Do For Money Honey?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 27, 28, 29, 59, 66, 67 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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