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Arizona · Kings Of Leon

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove D -- Chorus 2
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VERSE
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDCBHE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Arizona on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 4:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, ride through bars 37-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-56, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-28, 37-44 and 57-67, and 4 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-----------|
BD |x-x----xx-------|
Arizona -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Verse and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-40 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-76 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Arizona?

76 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 Arizona hard to play on drums?

48 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED