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Potion Approaching · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 4 OF 26
Groove F -- Part F
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBJFIS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Potion Approaching on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-9, snare through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-15, snare through bars 16-17 and hi-hat through bars 18-19, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 12-15 and 18-19, and 6 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x--x--------x--|
Potion Approaching -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 36 and 108.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- B, J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-62 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 75-114 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Potion Approaching?

144 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Potion Approaching hard to play on drums?

57 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Potion Approaching?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 36 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED