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Playing God · Paramore

EXERCISE 6 OF 48
Fill at bar 24 and 56
52 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Playing God on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-26, ride through bars 27-36, silence through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-58 and ride through bars 59-68, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Playing God -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- H, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-56 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 55-69 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part O -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part T -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 77-104 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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