One Of Those Crazy Girls · Paramore

96 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-36, 38-44 and 63-69, and 1 more place -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 122 BPM
ONE OF THOSE CRAZY GIRLS · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 37, 45, 52, 62, 70, 78 and 3 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 9 sections: 71 keep time, 10 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-27.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFBOIK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One Of Those Crazy Girls?

122 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 One Of Those Crazy Girls hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 One Of Those Crazy Girls?

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 37, 45, 52, 62, 70, 78 and 3 more.

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