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Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 7 OF 48
Groove D
60 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART I
PART O
VERSE
PART U
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBOIRU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-98, toms through bars 99-102 and hi-hat through bars 103-119.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 8 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x--x--x-|
BD |x---------x--x--|x------x--x--x--|
Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 36-91 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-58 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-66 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-84 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend?

140 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 Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED