Crying Lightning · Arctic Monkeys

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

106 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

96

LENGTH

3:36

DIFFICULTY

62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, silence through bars 26-28, snare through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-68, ride through bars 69-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-76, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-8, 37-46 and 49-51, and 4 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1                        2
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |---o--o--o--o--o---ooo--|o--o--o--o--o--o-----o--|
SD |------x--x--------x-----|------x--x--------xxx---|
BD |x--x--------x--x--------|x--x--------x--x--------|

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 36, 48, 56, 64, 73, 74 and 5 more.

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Bars 5-37 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
6. Through Part N and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
7. Bars 69-82 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.