Playing God · Paramore

104 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-34, 59-67 and 87-91, and 1 more place -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
PLAYING GOD · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 48, 56, 58, 68, 70 and 12 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 10 sections: 63 keep time, 18 are fills, 1 is a stop and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART O
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCHLTO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Playing God?

138 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 Playing God hard to play on drums?

62 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Playing God?

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 48, 56, 58, 68, 70 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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