The Bakery · Arctic Monkeys

85 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17-23, and 7 more places -- 69.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE BAKERY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 48 and 76.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 4 sections: 75 keep time, 2 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-28.

CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAES3CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Bakery?

120 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 The Bakery hard to play on drums?

41 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Bakery?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 48 and 76.

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