Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys? · Arctic Monkeys

186 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 18 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
WHO THE FUCK ARE ARCTIC MONKEYS? · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 29, 30 and 34 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 28-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 13 sections: 128 keep time, 40 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-145.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART X
PART AB
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCXAKOAB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys??

132 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 Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys? hard to play on drums?

61 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys??

14 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 29, 30 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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