This House is a Circus · Arctic Monkeys

120 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-55, 57-64 and 67-68, and 5 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
THIS HOUSE IS A CIRCUS · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 40, 56, 94, 98 and 4 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 8 sections: 79 keep time, 10 are fills, 17 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-23.

PART A
PART C
PART E
PART A
CHORUS
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJCEAS+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This House is a Circus?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is This House is a Circus hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 This House is a Circus?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 40, 56, 94, 98 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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