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Decode (Official) · Paramore

EXERCISE 12 OF 71
Fill at bar 26 and 70 (a small one)
104 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART K
PART O
PART B
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFKBAMO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Decode (Official) on drums

165 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-45, snare through bars 46-51, hi-hat through bars 52-92, snare through bars 93-112 and ride through bars 113-124, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29-30, and 7 more places -- 19.2% 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 (Official) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 24, 26, 28, 31, 32 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 26-36 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-57 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-77 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Decode (Official)?

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 (Official) hard to play on drums?

41 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 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 50 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 Decode (Official)?

20 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 24, 26, 28, 31, 32 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED