Conspiracy · Paramore

127 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13-15, and 20 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
CONSPIRACY · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 32, 64, 87 and 9 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 10 sections: 71 keep time, 15 are fills, 24 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-31.

PART A
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART S7
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFIARS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Conspiracy?

145 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 Conspiracy hard to play on drums?

44 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Conspiracy?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 32, 64, 87 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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