Too Much To Ask · Arctic Monkeys

81 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 9-23 and 41-47, and 3 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
TOO MUCH TO ASK · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 28, 32, 36, 40, 48 and 6 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 6 sections: 62 keep time, 12 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Too Much To Ask?

110 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 Too Much To Ask hard to play on drums?

53 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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 Too Much To Ask?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 28, 32, 36, 40, 48 and 6 more.

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