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505 · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 18 PASSED · 47 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 505 on drums

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

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
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, snare through bars 53-68, ride through bars 69-100 and snare through bars 101-117.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |r-r-r-r-r-r---r-|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
505 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 37-100 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED