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Arabella · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART C
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART G
PART K
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBGKMQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Arabella on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-22, snare through bars 23-32, hi-hat through bars 33-47, toms through bars 48-51, snare through bars 52-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-69, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 11 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Arabella -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 26, 28, 30, 46, 48 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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, A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-74 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-47 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-60 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Arabella?

90 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 Arabella hard to play on drums?

53 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Arabella?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 26, 28, 30, 46, 48 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED