Stop The World I Want To Get Off With You · Arctic Monkeys

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 15 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 95 BPM
STOP THE WORLD I WANT TO GET OFF WITH YOU · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 17, 25, 37, 44, 45, 53 and 3 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 44-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 4 sections: 54 keep time, 11 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-13.

CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBEDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stop The World I Want To Get Off With You?

95 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 Stop The World I Want To Get Off With You hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 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 Stop The World I Want To Get Off With You?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 17, 25, 37, 44, 45, 53 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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