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Cornerstone · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCOFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cornerstone on drums

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
43/100

toms through bars 2-50 and ride through bars 51-65.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-8 and 11-19, and 3 more places -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x--x|
T2 |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Cornerstone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 23, 25, 27, 37, 38 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C, O -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-28 -- 10 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-51 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cornerstone?

85 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 Cornerstone 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 Cornerstone?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 23, 25, 27, 37, 38 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED