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Teddy Picker · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 16 OF 45
Groove I -- Part I
67 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Teddy Picker on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
67/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-85, toms through bars 86-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-100.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x-x-----|
HF |x---------------|
Teddy Picker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-70 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 1-89 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED