Rose-Colored Boy · Paramore

101 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Pop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-32, 34 and 57-59, and 5 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
ROSE-COLORED BOY · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 17, 35, 39, 45, 60 and 5 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 9 sections: 75 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-80.

VERSE
CHORUS
OUTRO
VERSE 4
5 groovesJBNS6TFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rose-Colored Boy?

115 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 Rose-Colored Boy hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Rose-Colored Boy?

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 17, 35, 39, 45, 60 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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