Knee Socks · Arctic Monkeys

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 26-28, and 15 more places -- 52.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 98 BPM
KNEE SOCKS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 9 sections: 89 keep time, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-103.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBGS6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Knee Socks?

98 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 Knee Socks hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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