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Do Me A Favour · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 3 OF 18
Groove C -- Part C
34 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART S4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAFCS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Do Me A Favour on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
63/100

toms through bars 1-43, silence through bars 44-50, toms through bars 51-58, snare through bars 59-74 and toms through bars 75-77.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
T2 |-xxXxxXx-xxXxxXx|
FT |x-------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Do Me A Favour -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 23-59 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED