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Nervous Shakedown by ACDC · AC/DC

EXERCISE 7 OF 25
Fill at bar 31 (a small one)
73 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nervous Shakedown by ACDC on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-87, ride through bars 88-89 and snare through bars 90-92.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24-30 and 33-34, and 7 more places -- 43.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |------------x---|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Nervous Shakedown by ACDC -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 23, 31, 35, 43, 49 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- E, C -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Bars 31-73 -- 11 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 8 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Nervous Shakedown by ACDC?

82 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 Nervous Shakedown by ACDC hard to play on drums?

39 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Nervous Shakedown by ACDC?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 23, 31, 35, 43, 49 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED