Part II · Paramore

179 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 4:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-38 -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 159 BPM
PART II · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 39, 40, 48, 84, 92, 100 and 24 more.

LOOP · 159 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 9 sections: 116 keep time, 30 are fills, 16 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-38.

CHORUS
PART C
PART H
PART C
PART M
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAMCRH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Part II?

159 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Part II 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Part II?

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 39, 40, 48, 84, 92, 100 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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