Cover You In Oil · AC/DC

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-21, 23-29 and 31-37, and 6 more places -- 82.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
COVER YOU IN OIL · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 22, 30, 38, 54, 62, 70 and 5 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 70-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 3 sections: 97 keep time, 11 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-21.

CHORUS
3 groovesCS2S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cover You In Oil?

100 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 Cover You In Oil hard to play on drums?

44 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Cover You In Oil?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 22, 30, 38, 54, 62, 70 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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