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No Buses · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 10 OF 22
Run D1 · Part D (bars 38-48)
30 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Buses on drums

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

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
27/100

silence through bars 1-27, hi-hat through bars 28-32, silence through bars 33-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-81.

The beat

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.

    28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--xx--x---xx--x-|
SD |--xx--x---xx--x-|
BD |--xx--x---xx--x-|
No Buses -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 38-57 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 56-77 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED