When The Sun Goes Down · Arctic Monkeys

91 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 19, and 13 more places -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 22, 30, 46, 48, 56, 64 and 4 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 8 sections: 62 keep time, 10 are fills, 7 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-42.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDIKBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When The Sun Goes Down?

125 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 When The Sun Goes Down 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 When The Sun Goes Down?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 22, 30, 46, 48, 56, 64 and 4 more.

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