Red Right Hand · Arctic Monkeys

143 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-12, 14-21 and 23, and 12 more places -- 45.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
RED RIGHT HAND · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 13, 24, 25, 29, 37 and 19 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 6 sections: 100 keep time, 25 are fills, 12 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-129.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
5 groovesBQKHS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Red Right Hand?

140 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 Red Right Hand hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Red Right Hand?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 13, 24, 25, 29, 37 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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