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Mardy Bum · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 15 OF 38
Groove K
54 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mardy Bum on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24, ride through bars 25-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-28, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x-x-x--x-|
Mardy Bum -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-34 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-35 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-61 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED