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Careful · Paramore

EXERCISE 1 OF 72
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
PART T
PART Q
PART B
OUTRO
7 groovesFTBNQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Careful on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-14, hi-hat through bars 15-25, toms through bars 26-34, snare through bars 35-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-50, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-----x---x-|
BD |x-x---x-x---x---|
Careful -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- F, B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-48 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-50 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-79 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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