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Fire And The Thud · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 10 OF 18
Groove D -- Outro
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0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBFACD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fire And The Thud on drums

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

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
37/100

snare through bars 1-69, toms through bars 70-77 and ride through bars 78-106.

The beat

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Fire And The Thud -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- B, F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-70 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED