Dog Eat Dog · AC/DC

121 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-27, 33-51 and 74-92, and 1 more place -- 71.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 135 BPM
DOG EAT DOG · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 28, 30, 52, 54, 70, 93 and 1 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 8 sections: 91 keep time, 7 are fills, 13 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-24.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
6 groovesGLS1S2S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dog Eat Dog?

135 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 Dog Eat Dog hard to play on drums?

42 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Dog Eat Dog?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 28, 30, 52, 54, 70, 93 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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