A Certain Romance · Arctic Monkeys

186 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 5:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-40, 43-44 and 46-48, and 7 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
A CERTAIN ROMANCE · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 31 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 14-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 15 sections: 101 keep time, 37 are fills, 15 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 111-125.

PART B
PART S3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART U
PART X
13 groovesJXPBS3+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Certain Romance?

142 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 A Certain Romance hard to play on drums?

62 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 A Certain Romance?

15 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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