Whole Lotta Rosie · AC/DC

208 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 5:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-48, 62-81 and 94-108, and 3 more places -- 54.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 158 BPM
WHOLE LOTTA ROSIE · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 25, 49, 59, 61, 85, 91 and 14 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 13 sections: 165 keep time, 20 are fills, 12 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 159-188.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
5 groovesDBGS12S13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whole Lotta Rosie?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Whole Lotta Rosie hard to play on drums?

49 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Whole Lotta Rosie?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 25, 49, 59, 61, 85, 91 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED
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