505 · Arctic Monkeys

117 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-36 and 53-67 -- 41.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
505 · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 6 sections: 108 keep time, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-36.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 505?

140 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 505 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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