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Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys? · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 5 OF 72
Groove Y
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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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys? on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-30, toms through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-66, toms through bars 67-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-106, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- C, X -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-40 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-71 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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