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Bigger Boys And Stolen Sweethearts · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 6 OF 28
Groove C
47 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS
PART S2
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
PART O
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGHKDS2+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 4
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bigger Boys And Stolen Sweethearts on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
53/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-18, silence through bars 19-31, hi-hat through bars 32-38, silence through bars 39-50 and ride through bars 51-53, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 13 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |---x--------x---|
T1 |-----x----------|
FT |-------x--------|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Bigger Boys And Stolen Sweethearts -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 54, 61, 82, 90 and 92.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- G, H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-18 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 21-53 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-70 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bigger Boys And Stolen Sweethearts?

132 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 Bigger Boys And Stolen Sweethearts hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Bigger Boys And Stolen Sweethearts?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 54, 61, 82, 90 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED