Do I Wanna Know? · Arctic Monkeys

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
20/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-34, 43-66 and 93 -- 63.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 85 BPM
DO I WANNA KNOW? · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars: 56 keep time and 37 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-26.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Do I Wanna Know??

85 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 Do I Wanna Know? hard to play on drums?

20 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 2 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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