Pretty Visitors · Arctic Monkeys

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-25 -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
PRETTY VISITORS · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 13 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 6-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 11-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 26-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 11 sections: 33 keep time, 19 are fills, 4 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-25.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART M
PART S7
PART P
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesJMPYS7+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pretty Visitors?

85 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 Pretty Visitors hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Pretty Visitors?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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