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Parachute · Hayley Williams

EXERCISE 14 OF 31
Run H1 · Part H (bars 39-54)
82 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART S2
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFS2HJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Parachute on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-19 and hi-hat through bars 20-99.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-36, 55-69 and 82-96 -- 55.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    21               22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x---x-|--x----xx-x-----|
Parachute -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 19, 20, 54, 77, 80 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- F, H -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-55 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Parachute?

110 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 Parachute hard to play on drums?

54 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 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 Parachute?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 19, 20, 54, 77, 80 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED