In My Chair · Status Quo

79 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 135 BPM, 1:45 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
1:45
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-42 and 45-76 -- 94.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 135 BPM
IN MY CHAIR · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 4 sections: 73 keep time, 1 is a fill and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-76.

CHORUS
4 groovesBS1S3S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In My Chair?

135 BPM, in 3/4, 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 In My Chair hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 1:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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