Number 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.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-32, 40 and 42-47, and 9 more places -- 36.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
NUMBER 1 PARTY ANTHEM · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 33, 39, 41, 49, 57 and 12 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 8 sections: 74 keep time, 18 are fills and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-17.

PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART F
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBMFIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Number 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 Number 1 Party Anthem hard to play on drums?

40 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 25 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 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Number 1 Party Anthem?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 33, 39, 41, 49, 57 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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