Do Me A Favour · Arctic Monkeys

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:25 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-21, 39-42 and 51-57, and 1 more place -- 48.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
DO ME A FAVOUR · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 58.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 6 sections: 63 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-21.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART S4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAFCS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Do Me A Favour?

90 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 Me A Favour hard to play on drums?

63 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Do Me A Favour?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 58.

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