Armchair Quarterback · Ten Foot Pole

109 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 2:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29, 31-33 and 53-59, and 3 more places -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 205 BPM
ARMCHAIR QUARTERBACK · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 22, 52, 84, 92, 100 and 108.

LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 15 sections: 79 keep time, 6 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-33.

PART A
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART A
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART K
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEKAFB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Armchair Quarterback?

205 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 Armchair Quarterback 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Armchair Quarterback?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 22, 52, 84, 92, 100 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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