Pressure · Paramore

119 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-35 and 37-40, and 5 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 162 BPM
PRESSURE · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 28, 36, 48 and 7 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 16 sections: 82 keep time, 13 are fills, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-35.

PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART R
PART U
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHCFDR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pressure?

162 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 Pressure hard to play on drums?

48 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Pressure?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 28, 36, 48 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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