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Conspiracy · Paramore

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove F -- Chorus 2
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0 / 48 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Conspiracy on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
44/100

ride through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-11, hi-hat through bars 12-16, toms through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-40, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---------x-|
Conspiracy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 64-89 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part S7 and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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