Old Yellow Bricks · Arctic Monkeys

104 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 26-31 and 50-54, and 1 more place -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
OLD YELLOW BRICKS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 17, 49, 55, 56, 57, 58 and 10 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 55-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 11 sections: 66 keep time, 16 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-85.

CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFCHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Old Yellow Bricks?

135 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 Old Yellow Bricks hard to play on drums?

62 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Old Yellow Bricks?

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 17, 49, 55, 56, 57, 58 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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