My Propeller · Arctic Monkeys

92 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12-18 and 20-22, and 10 more places -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
MY PROPELLER · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 41, 65, 74, 77, 80 and 4 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 13 sections: 52 keep time, 10 are fills, 18 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-22.

CHORUS
PART E
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDEBAS2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Propeller?

116 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 My Propeller 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?

92 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 My Propeller?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 41, 65, 74, 77, 80 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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