You Shook Me All Night Long · AC/DC

111 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-29, 34 and 36, and 15 more places -- 48.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 109, 110 and 111.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 109-111 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 4 sections: 98 keep time, 3 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-102.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
4 groovesBS1PCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Shook Me All Night Long?

120 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 You Shook Me All Night Long hard to play on drums?

46 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 You Shook Me All Night Long?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 109, 110 and 111.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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