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If You Were There, Beware · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 5 OF 48
Groove T -- Part T
36 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play If You Were There, Beware on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-41 and silence through bars 42-44, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--xx--xx-xxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-------x-----|
If You Were There, Beware -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- N, D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-41 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-84 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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