Dangerous Animals · Arctic Monkeys

106 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-16 and 18-20, and 4 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
DANGEROUS ANIMALS · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 21, 23, 25 and 23 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 7 sections: 45 keep time, 29 are fills and 26 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-86.

PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDWJBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dangerous Animals?

125 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 Dangerous Animals hard to play on drums?

58 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Dangerous Animals?

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 21, 23, 25 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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