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Pressure · Paramore

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove H -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 42 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pressure on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, snare through bars 25-41, silence through bars 42-43, hi-hat through bars 44-56 and snare through bars 57-84, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-----x-x-|--x-x-x---------|
Pressure -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 28, 36, 48 and 7 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 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-17 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-57 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-77 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 81-96 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 99-111 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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