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A Certain Romance · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 18 OF 60
Run J1 · Chorus (bars 38-61)
94 / 186 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Certain Romance on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bars 2-22, silence through bars 23-37, hi-hat through bars 38-61, ride through bars 62-69, hi-hat through bars 70-85 and ride through bars 86-102, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part S3 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 2-45 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-88 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 86-125 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 122-134 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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