Sin City · AC/DC

148 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-17, 39-45 and 47-61, and 4 more places -- 44.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
SIN CITY · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 63, 82, 84 and 7 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 13 sections: 114 keep time, 13 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-108.

PART C
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEMGJC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sin City?

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 Sin City hard to play on drums?

42 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sin City?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 63, 82, 84 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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