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Shot Down In Flames · AC/DC

EXERCISE 10 OF 14
Join Part E to Chorus 2 (bars 65-67)
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0 / 14 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
5 groovesBES1S8AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shot Down In Flames on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-27, snare through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-53, toms through bars 54-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-106, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-27, 30-36 and 39-53, and 4 more places -- 76.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Shot Down In Flames -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 29, 54, 55 and 85.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Shot Down In Flames?

130 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 Shot Down In Flames hard to play on drums?

54 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Shot Down In Flames?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 29, 54, 55 and 85.

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