Emergency · Paramore

161 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 14, and 20 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 168 BPM
EMERGENCY · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 40, 60, 88, 116, 118, 124 and 4 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 118 · LANDS ON BAR 119 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 13 sections: 127 keep time, 10 are fills, 9 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-31.

PART F
PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART S
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDFHSQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Emergency?

168 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 Emergency hard to play on drums?

57 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Emergency?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 40, 60, 88, 116, 118, 124 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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