Choo Choo · Arctic Monkeys

112 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 8 more places -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
CHOO CHOO · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 38, 42, 74, 78, 94, 96 and 4 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 10 sections: 80 keep time, 10 are fills, 5 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-30.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDJGOS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Choo Choo?

145 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 Choo Choo hard to play on drums?

52 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Choo Choo?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 38, 42, 74, 78, 94, 96 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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