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Dangerous Animals · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 39 OF 50
Groove X
83 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dangerous Animals on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, toms through bars 6-30, hi-hat through bars 31-39, toms through bars 40-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-75, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-40 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-66 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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