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Fluorescent Adolescent · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 9 OF 39
Groove D -- Part D
42 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART B
PART D
PART B
PART B
PART M
VERSE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesABLNM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fluorescent Adolescent on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
67/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, toms through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-37, toms through bars 38-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-49, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 32 and 50-51, and 2 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-x-x-----------|
FT |x-x-x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-----------|
Fluorescent Adolescent -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 9-25 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fluorescent Adolescent?

112 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 Fluorescent Adolescent hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Fluorescent Adolescent?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED