Big Man, Little Dignity · Paramore

132 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-29, 31 and 33-35, and 11 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BIG MAN, LITTLE DIGNITY · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 40, 52, 60 and 16 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 9 sections: 90 keep time, 22 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-21.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesIES1CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Big Man, Little Dignity?

124 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 Big Man, Little Dignity hard to play on drums?

57 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 30 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 Big Man, Little Dignity?

16 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 40, 52, 60 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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