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crushcrushcrush · Paramore

EXERCISE 24 OF 50
Fill at bar 56 (a small one)
88 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play crushcrushcrush on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-26, hi-hat through bars 27-56, kick and crashes through bars 57-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-66, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- D, J -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-42 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-70 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 67-85 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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