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

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

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

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.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-53 and snare through bars 54-61.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |g-X-g-g-g-X-g-X-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED