Gone Shootin' · AC/DC

156 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-40, and 6 more places -- 53.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
GONE SHOOTIN' · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 41, 42, 43 and 23 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 41-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 4 sections: 118 keep time, 29 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-40.

CHORUS
PART M
OUTRO
3 groovesBMS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gone Shootin'?

120 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 Gone Shootin' hard to play on drums?

46 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 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 Gone Shootin'?

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 41, 42, 43 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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