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Armchair Quarterback · Ten Foot Pole

Armchair Quarterback · Ten Foot Pole
EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART A
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART A
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEKAFB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Armchair Quarterback on drums

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.

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
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bars 1-21, hi-hat through bars 22-34, toms through bars 35-44, hi-hat through bars 45-68, ride through bars 69-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-109.

The beat

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.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Armchair Quarterback -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- E, A -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-17 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-102 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-101 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-45 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-66 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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