← SONGS

Last Hope · Paramore

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove D -- Part D (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART S5
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGDRLS5+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Last Hope on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-22, ride through bars 23-39, silence through bars 40-46, snare through bars 47-51, toms through bars 52-72 and ride through bars 73-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-21 -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7                8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |ggggX-gggggxXggg|ggggXgggggg-Xg--|
T2 |----------------|-----------x--x-|
FT |----------------|---------------x|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
Last Hope -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 22, 30, 38, 52, 53, 54 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-24 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part S5 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Last Hope?

102 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 Last Hope hard to play on drums?

53 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Last Hope?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 22, 30, 38, 52, 53, 54 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED