Riot Van · Arctic Monkeys

57 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 2:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33 and 43-48 -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 104 BPM
RIOT VAN · BAR 33
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 49.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 3 sections: 22 keep time, 1 is a fill, 24 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-17.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Riot Van?

104 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 Riot Van hard to play on drums?

46 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Riot Van?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 49.

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