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Suck It And See · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove B -- Part B
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COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART B
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIOTDB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suck It And See on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-67, snare through bars 68-73, toms through bars 74-75, snare through bars 76-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-112.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18 and 20, and 15 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-----x-x---x---|
Suck It And See -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 33, 49, 57 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-59 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part O and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 85-94 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Suck It And See?

129 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 Suck It And See hard to play on drums?

60 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Suck It And See?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 33, 49, 57 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED