If You Were There, Beware · Arctic Monkeys

151 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-47, 49-51 and 53-55, and 6 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 137 BPM
IF YOU WERE THERE, BEWARE · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 30 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 9-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 20-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 11 sections: 55 keep time, 36 are fills, 4 are stops and 47 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-39.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART I
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO
BREAK
10 groovesNS10DIW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is If You Were There, Beware?

137 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 If You Were There, Beware hard to play on drums?

55 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 If You Were There, Beware?

9 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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