Leave Before The Lights Come On · Arctic Monkeys

140 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 8 and 10-16, and 2 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
LEAVE BEFORE THE LIGHTS COME ON · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 6, 7, 9, 17, 22, 23 and 30 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 22-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 19 sections: 72 keep time, 36 are fills, 8 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

CHORUS
PART H
PART R
PART I
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART S16
PART AA
OUTRO 2
16 groovesARAAOI+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Leave Before The Lights Come On?

155 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 Leave Before The Lights Come On hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Leave Before The Lights Come On?

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 6, 7, 9, 17, 22, 23 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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