One For The Road · Arctic Monkeys

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-35 and 37-43 -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
ONE FOR THE ROAD · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 28, 44, 60, 72 and 76.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 8 sections: 58 keep time, 6 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-20.

PART C
CHORUS
PART F
BREAK
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDCFJH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One For The Road?

90 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 One For The Road hard to play on drums?

42 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?

76 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in One For The Road?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 28, 44, 60, 72 and 76.

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