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Paparazzi cover · Thornhill

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove E -- Chorus
0 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paparazzi cover on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-27, hi-hat through bars 28-44, snare through bars 45-58, toms through bars 59-60 and snare through bars 61-68, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
Paparazzi cover -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, A -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-44 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part M -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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