I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor · Arctic Monkeys

142 bars at 207 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
207 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 17 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 207 BPM
I BET YOU LOOK GOOD ON THE DANCEFLOOR · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 32, 48, 64, 72, 88 and 2 more.

LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 14 sections: 94 keep time, 8 are fills and 22 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-60.

PART A
PART C
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFCHEA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor?

207 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 I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 32, 48, 64, 72, 88 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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