Givin The Dog A Bone · AC/DC

114 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-55, 57-64 and 66, and 8 more places -- 74.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 132 BPM
GIVIN THE DOG A BONE · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 4, 56, 81, 82, 84 and 6 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 81-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 107-110 · LANDS ON BAR 111 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 2 sections: 95 keep time, 12 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-55.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesFEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Givin The Dog A Bone?

132 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 Givin The Dog A Bone hard to play on drums?

47 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 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 Givin The Dog A Bone?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 4, 56, 81, 82, 84 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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