Mardy Bum · Arctic Monkeys

80 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10 and 12, and 6 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
MARDY BUM · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 56, 60, 65, 68 and 79.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 9 sections: 57 keep time, 5 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-21.

PART B
PART D
PART I
PART G
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCDIMG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mardy Bum?

112 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 Mardy Bum hard to play on drums?

64 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Mardy Bum?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 56, 60, 65, 68 and 79.

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