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Reckless Serenade · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 17 OF 31
Run B2 · Chorus 2 (bars 30-45)
55 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Reckless Serenade on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, toms through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-45, toms through bars 46-52 and snare through bars 53-58, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    14               15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x-------x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
T1 |----------------|--x-------------|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|x-----x---x---x-|
Reckless Serenade -- 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 21, 45, 58, 59, 69, 72 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-33 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-61 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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