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When The Sun Goes Down · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove D -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When The Sun Goes Down on drums

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.

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
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-14, hi-hat through bars 15-46, ride through bars 47-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-91.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
When The Sun Goes Down -- 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 22, 30, 46, 48, 56, 64 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- D, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-49 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-81 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED