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Big Man, Little Dignity · Paramore

EXERCISE 13 OF 51
Fill at bar 32 (a small one)
86 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Big Man, Little Dignity on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-52, ride through bars 53-68 and snare through bars 69-72, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Big Man, Little Dignity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- I, E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 38-61 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 80-109 -- 11 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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