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EXERCISE 5 OF 31
Fill at bar 48, 56, 64 and 86 (a small one)
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0 / 31 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
9 groovesAHCQG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crying Lightning (Artic Monkeys) on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
59/100

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 73-75, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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 -- 30.8% 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---ooooo---|o---o---o---o---o---o-------o---|
SD |--------x---x-----------x-------|--------x---x-----------xxxx----|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|x---x-----------x---x-----------|
Crying Lightning (Artic Monkeys) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 36, 48, 56, 64, 86, 94 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-49 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 75-82 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Crying Lightning (Artic Monkeys)?

108 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Crying Lightning (Artic Monkeys) hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Crying Lightning (Artic Monkeys)?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 36, 48, 56, 64, 86, 94 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED