Piledriver Waltz · Arctic Monkeys

97 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 3:14 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-31 and 33, and 15 more places -- 49.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
PILEDRIVER WALTZ · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 32, 40, 58, 66, 74, 76 and 4 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 7 sections: 22 keep time, 10 are fills, 55 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-18.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADIBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Piledriver Waltz?

110 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Piledriver Waltz hard to play on drums?

55 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Piledriver Waltz?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 32, 40, 58, 66, 74, 76 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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