Shot in the Dark · Ozzy Osbourne

133 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 11-16 and 19-24, and 15 more places -- 33.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
SHOT IN THE DARK · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 17, 32, 33, 41, 42 and 21 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 9 sections: 93 keep time, 28 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-27.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART O
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGROFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shot in the Dark?

124 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?

60 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Shot in the Dark?

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 17, 32, 33, 41, 42 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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