Stuck on the puzzle · Alex Turner

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-17, 19-27 and 36-42, and 2 more places -- 62.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 78 BPM
STUCK ON THE PUZZLE · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 66.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 4 sections: 61 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-65.

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

Questions

What BPM is Stuck on the puzzle?

78 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 Stuck on the puzzle hard to play on drums?

38 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Stuck on the puzzle?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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