Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? · Arctic Monkeys

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 2:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 6-16 and 18-22, and 1 more place -- 54.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
WHY'D YOU ONLY CALL ME WHEN YOU'RE HIGH? · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 49 and 53.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 3 sections: 54 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-36.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High??

92 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 Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? hard to play on drums?

56 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High??

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 49 and 53.

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