(One Of Those) Crazy Girls · Paramore

96 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-45, 63-70 and 81-90 -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
(ONE OF THOSE) CRAZY GIRLS · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 51, 52, 61, 62, 78 and 79.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 78-79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 9 sections: 75 keep time, 7 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-27.

PART B
CHORUS
PART A
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFBAEH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is (One Of Those) Crazy Girls?

120 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?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. 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 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 (One Of Those) Crazy Girls?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 51, 52, 61, 62, 78 and 79.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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