Night Prowler · AC/DC

99 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 5:53 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-13, 17-33 and 35-41, and 4 more places -- 78.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
NIGHT PROWLER · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 6, 34, 42, 50, 58 and 66.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 5 sections: 58 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-33.

OUTRO
BREAK 2
5 groovesES5AS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Night Prowler?

100 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Night Prowler hard to play on drums?

45 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Night Prowler?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 6, 34, 42, 50, 58 and 66.

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