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Dog Eat Dog · AC/DC

EXERCISE 16 OF 21
Fill at bar 70 (a small one)
113 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART L
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
6 groovesGLS1S2S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dog Eat Dog on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
42/100

snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, toms through bars 9-28, hi-hat through bars 29-32, toms through bars 33-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-71, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
T2 |----x-x-----x---|
FT |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Dog Eat Dog -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Break 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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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