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What Do You Do For Money Honey · AC/DC

EXERCISE 27 OF 27
Play the whole song with the record
82 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 90 BARS LIT
PART A
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesKGADS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What Do You Do For Money Honey on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
32/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-9 and snare through bars 10-90.

The beat

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.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |--x-x-x-x-x---x-|
What Do You Do For Money Honey -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- K, G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-57 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 59-84 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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