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You Shook Me All Night Long · AC/DC

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 22 PASSED · 50 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
4 groovesBS1PCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Shook Me All Night Long on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-111.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
You Shook Me All Night Long -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 101-107 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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