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Fast In My Car · Paramore

EXERCISE 3 OF 31
Groove E -- Part E
50 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fast In My Car on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
55/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---o-|--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-x-----x---|----x-x-----x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
HF |----------------|x---------------|
Fast In My Car -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-91 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 87-103 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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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