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D Is For Dangerous · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 4 OF 35
Groove D -- Part D
28 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADPMNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play D Is For Dangerous on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-64, snare through bars 65-75, hi-hat through bars 76-77 and snare through bars 78-81.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 6 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x--x--x-|
D Is For Dangerous -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 12, 15, 16, 19, 20 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Verse and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is D Is For Dangerous?

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 D Is For Dangerous hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 D Is For Dangerous?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 12, 15, 16, 19, 20 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED