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Red Right Hand · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 21 OF 38
Join Part H to Chorus 2 (bars 61-63)
114 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
5 groovesBQKHS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Red Right Hand on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
66/100

toms through bars 1-49, kick and crashes through bars 50-60, toms through bars 61-127, hi-hat through bars 128-131, snare through bars 132-141 and hi-hat through bars 142-143.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x--x--x-----x---|
FT |x-x-x-----x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Red Right Hand -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 104-134 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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