Stop This Song (Lovesick Melody) · Paramore

144 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 37-43 and 78-93, and 1 more place -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
STOP THIS SONG (LOVESICK MELODY) · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 18, 36, 53, 61, 69, 77 and 6 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 16 sections: 112 keep time, 12 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-93.

CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART H
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART V
PART X
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
11 groovesBDHXAE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stop This Song (Lovesick Melody)?

170 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 Stop This Song (Lovesick Melody) 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Stop This Song (Lovesick Melody)?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 18, 36, 53, 61, 69, 77 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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