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Shoot To Thrill · AC/DC

EXERCISE 11 OF 48
Groove H
132 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, CHORUS 3, OUTRO 2
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART Y
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFIYAAD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shoot To Thrill on drums

184 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-13, hi-hat through bars 14-79, snare through bars 80-85 and toms through bars 86-89, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-19, 30-35 and 38-45, and 6 more places -- 47.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Shoot To Thrill -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 13, 36, 37, 48, 49, 64 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- F, I -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 42-58 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part Y and Part Z -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Shoot To Thrill?

141 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 Shoot To Thrill hard to play on drums?

53 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?

184 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Shoot To Thrill?

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 13, 36, 37, 48, 49, 64 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED