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I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 11 OF 49
Groove H -- Part H
86 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT
PART A
PART C
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART H
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFCHEA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
207 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
68/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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, F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-92 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 89-109 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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