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Whole Lotta Rosie · AC/DC

EXERCISE 22 OF 37
Part G into Chorus 3 with the record (bars 90-97)
184 / 208 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Whole Lotta Rosie on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-24, hi-hat through bars 25-59, snare through bars 60-61, hi-hat through bars 62-91 and snare through bars 92-93, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Whole Lotta Rosie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-58 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 90-118 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 145-190 -- 6 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 5 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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