Arms Like Teeth (AI) · Counterparts

139 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 2:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74, 77 and 80, and 9 more places -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 192 BPM
ARMS LIKE TEETH (AI) · BAR 90
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 40 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 8-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 16-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 13 sections: 44 keep time, 46 are fills, 39 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-109.

CHORUS
PART F
PART AE
PART AO
PART AP
PART AV
PART AO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAAOAEBDAP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Arms Like Teeth (AI)?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Arms Like Teeth (AI) hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Arms Like Teeth (AI)?

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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