Secret Door · Arctic Monkeys

110 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-36, 47-54 and 56-61 -- 37.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SECRET DOOR · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 13, 37, 46, 55, 62, 78 and 3 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 6 sections: 72 keep time, 9 are fills, 12 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-36.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Secret Door?

125 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 Secret Door hard to play on drums?

48 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Secret Door?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 13, 37, 46, 55, 62, 78 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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