Looking Up · Paramore

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-20, 39-41 and 58-60 -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
LOOKING UP · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 19, 21 and 23 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 25-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 13 sections: 31 keep time, 29 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
PART U
PART W
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFWLIAC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Looking Up?

100 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 Looking Up hard to play on drums?

64 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Looking Up?

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 19, 21 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
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