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Arms Like Teeth (AI) · Counterparts

EXERCISE 40 OF 66
Groove AQ
90 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AO, PART AP
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Arms Like Teeth (AI) on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
43/100

snare through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-15, toms through bars 16-40, hi-hat through bars 41-46, toms through bars 47-57 and snare through bars 58-64, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    90
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |------x---------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Arms Like Teeth (AI) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- AO, F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-49 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-70 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 72-87 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part AO and Part AP -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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