From The Ritz To The Rubble · Arctic Monkeys

139 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 27-29, and 3 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 188 BPM
FROM THE RITZ TO THE RUBBLE · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 26, 36, 44, 48, 52, 60 and 4 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 11 sections: 93 keep time, 10 are fills, 20 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-35.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART S6
PART C
PART D
PART P
9 groovesEDCPS6+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is From The Ritz To The Rubble?

188 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is From The Ritz To The Rubble hard to play on drums?

48 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 From The Ritz To The Rubble?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 26, 36, 44, 48, 52, 60 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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