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My Propeller · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 9 OF 34
Groove E -- Part E
60 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART E
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDEBAS2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Propeller on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
46/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-4, silence through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-61, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-----x-o---o-|
SD |------x-----x---|
T2 |---xx-----------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|
HF |------------x---|
My Propeller -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- D, B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part S2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-39 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 39-60 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 65-84 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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