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Armatage Shanks · Green Day

EXERCISE 21 OF 49
Groove N
90 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART Q
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDAJQKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Armatage Shanks on drums

107 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
75/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, ride through bars 49-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-70, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 15 and 17-21, and 15 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Armatage Shanks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-33 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-36 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part K and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Armatage Shanks?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Armatage Shanks hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Armatage Shanks?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED