No. 1 Party Anthem · Arctic Monkeys

112 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-32, 43-48 and 51-56, and 2 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
NO. 1 PARTY ANTHEM · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 17, 33, 41, 49, 57 and 7 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 10 sections: 79 keep time, 13 are fills and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-16.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEGBLMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No. 1 Party Anthem?

115 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 No. 1 Party Anthem hard to play on drums?

49 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 No. 1 Party Anthem?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 17, 33, 41, 49, 57 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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