Careful · Paramore

148 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 19, and 21 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
CAREFUL · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 18, 20, 22 and 30 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 16 sections: 63 keep time, 36 are fills, 21 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-74.

PART B
CHORUS
PART N
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART T
PART Q
PART B
OUTRO
7 groovesFTBNQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Careful?

165 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 Careful hard to play on drums?

52 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Careful?

19 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 18, 20, 22 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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