Reckless Serenade · Arctic Monkeys

86 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-20 and 30-44 -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
RECKLESS SERENADE · BARS 14-15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 45, 58, 59, 69, 72 and 4 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 58-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 72-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 9 sections: 46 keep time, 10 are fills, 6 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-44.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART H
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBHES1L+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Reckless Serenade?

130 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 Reckless Serenade hard to play on drums?

47 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Reckless Serenade?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 45, 58, 59, 69, 72 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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