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.

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

TEMPO

188 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

139

LENGTH

2:57

DIFFICULTY

48/100

ride through bars 3-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, snare through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-38, snare through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-42, and 14 more changes after that.

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.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|

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

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- E, P, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
5. Bars 19-103 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
6. Through Part D and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
7. Through Part P and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.