Fast In My Car · Paramore

115 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17-32, and 6 more places -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
FAST IN MY CAR · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 36, 44, 45, 46, 74 and 10 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 44-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 96-98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 8 sections: 89 keep time and 16 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAEOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fast In My Car?

128 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 Fast In My Car hard to play on drums?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Fast In My Car?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 36, 44, 45, 46, 74 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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