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This House is a Circus · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 4 OF 35
Groove A -- Part A
62 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This House is a Circus on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-47, snare through bars 48-68, hi-hat through bars 69-70, snare through bars 71-79, silence through bars 80-86 and snare through bars 87-92, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
This House is a Circus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- J, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 5-25 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-44 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-103 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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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