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Too Much To Ask · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 3 OF 25
Groove C
61 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Too Much To Ask on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56, ride through bars 57-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-81.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-----x-----|----x-----x-x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|x-----x-x-------|
Too Much To Ask -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 21-50 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 50-73 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED