No Buses · Arctic Monkeys

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-31 and 49-52 -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 102 BPM
NO BUSES · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 62, 66, 79 and 80.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 79-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 12 sections: 31 keep time, 4 are fills, 7 are stops and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-47.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesS2GDCK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Buses?

102 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 Buses hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in No Buses?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 62, 66, 79 and 80.

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