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Emergency · Paramore

EXERCISE 5 OF 48
Groove F -- Part F
80 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Emergency on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bar 1, silence through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-20, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Emergency -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 40, 60, 88, 116, 118, 124 and 4 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 4-41 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-61 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part S -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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