crushcrushcrush · Paramore

107 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 9-11 and 14-15, and 5 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 137 BPM
CRUSHCRUSHCRUSH · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 12, 22, 32, 38, 46 and 15 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 11 sections: 65 keep time, 21 are fills, 6 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-21.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART I
PART N
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDJNIY+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is crushcrushcrush?

137 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 crushcrushcrush hard to play on drums?

63 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 crushcrushcrush?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 12, 22, 32, 38, 46 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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