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Looking Up · Paramore

EXERCISE 23 OF 58
2-bar fill at bar 36
42 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Looking Up on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38 and snare through bars 39-47, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18               19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x--x-x|
BD |x---xx--xx--xx--|xx--xx--xx--x---|
Looking Up -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-32 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 4-20 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-33 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-48 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 46-76 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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