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Shot In The Dark · AC/DC

EXERCISE 7 OF 14
Groove E (a two-bar phrase)
70 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesCAS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shot In The Dark on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-21, 23-28 and 31-47, and 3 more places -- 81.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Shot In The Dark -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 22, 30, 48, 56, 60 and 2 more.

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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Bars 29-77 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Shot In The Dark?

115 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 In The Dark hard to play on drums?

43 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Shot In The Dark?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 22, 30, 48, 56, 60 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED