Love Is a Laserquest · Arctic Monkeys

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 22-27 and 40-42, and 1 more place -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
LOVE IS A LASERQUEST · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 53 and 61.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 7 sections: 59 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
OUTRO
5 groovesADFBS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Is a Laserquest?

85 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 Love Is a Laserquest hard to play on drums?

46 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Love Is a Laserquest?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 53 and 61.

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