Teddy Picker · Arctic Monkeys

100 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 11-16 and 19-24, and 3 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
TEDDY PICKER · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 30, 31 and 12 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 30-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 7 sections: 71 keep time, 18 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-57.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
VERSE
PART I
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCSLIAC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Teddy Picker?

150 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 Teddy Picker hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

100 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Teddy Picker?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 30, 31 and 12 more.

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