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Don't Shoot Shotgun · Def Leppard

EXERCISE 5 OF 48
Groove E -- Part E
65 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART J
PART S
CHORUS
PART J
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
9 groovesWJCSI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Don't Shoot Shotgun on drums

142 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-134 and snare through bars 135-142.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53 and 86-88, and 9 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-----------|
HH |x-x-----x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Don't Shoot Shotgun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 27, 28, 31, 32, 38, 61 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- W, J -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Don't Shoot Shotgun?

131 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 Don't Shoot Shotgun hard to play on drums?

51 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Don't Shoot Shotgun?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 27, 28, 31, 32, 38, 61 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED