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Night Prowler · AC/DC

EXERCISE 7 OF 13
Fill at bar 34, 42, 50 and 58 (a small one)
56 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
BREAK 2
5 groovesES5AS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Night Prowler on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
45/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-6, hi-hat through bars 7-67 and silence through bars 68-99.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x-----x-|
Night Prowler -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Break 2 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED