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Decode (DropD) · Paramore

EXERCISE 18 OF 60
Join Chorus to Part D (bars 56-58)
100 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesKFDAES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Decode (DropD) on drums

165 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-92, snare through bars 93-108, ride through bars 109-122, kick and crashes through bars 123-124 and snare through bars 125-165.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29-30, and 7 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    126
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |------x---x-----|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Decode (DropD) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 16, 24, 26, 28, 31, 32 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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, K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 70-81 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Decode (DropD)?

164 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 Decode (DropD) 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Decode (DropD)?

18 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 16, 24, 26, 28, 31, 32 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED