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Piledriver Waltz · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 11 OF 28
Groove F (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 28 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADIBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Piledriver Waltz on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-36, hi-hat through bars 37-48 and ride through bars 49-97.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
RD |----x---x---|
BD |x---x---x-x-|
Piledriver Waltz -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- I -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 34-77 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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