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The View From The Afternoon · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 10 OF 56
Fill at bar 34 and 75 (a small one)
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0 / 56 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART M
BREAK 4
CHORUS 3
PART T
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGTMBW+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The View From The Afternoon on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-36, snare through bars 37-39, ride through bars 40-42, hi-hat through bars 43-77 and snare through bars 78-79, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 19, and 10 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |-xxx-xx-xxxx-xxx|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
The View From The Afternoon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-35 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 11-34 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-59 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The View From The Afternoon?

146 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 View From The Afternoon hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The View From The Afternoon?

12 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED