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Ignorance · Paramore

EXERCISE 1 OF 92
Groove F -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART J
PART K
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFPLXK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ignorance on drums

154 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bar 1, silence through bars 2-4, snare through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-12, snare through bars 13-16 and kick and crashes through bars 17-24, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 51-53 and 59-61, and 7 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    113
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Ignorance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

25 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 28, 32, 40, 48, 50 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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, P -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-79 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ignorance?

171 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 Ignorance hard to play on drums?

56 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 Ignorance?

25 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 28, 32, 40, 48, 50 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED