Fire And The Thud · Arctic Monkeys

106 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-69 -- 53.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
FIRE AND THE THUD · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 81 and 105.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 7 sections: 97 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-69.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBFACD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fire And The Thud?

115 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 Fire And The Thud hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Fire And The Thud?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 81 and 105.

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