Paparazzi cover · Thornhill

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-26 and 45-47, and 7 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 105 BPM
PAPARAZZI COVER · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 36, 48, 52, 59, 60 and 8 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 10 sections: 70 keep time, 14 are fills, 4 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART M
BREAK 3
OUTRO
7 groovesEBMS9J+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paparazzi cover?

105 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 Paparazzi cover hard to play on drums?

55 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Paparazzi cover?

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 36, 48, 52, 59, 60 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Thornhill drum parts

EVERY THORNHILL CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →