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The Only Exception · Paramore

EXERCISE 13 OF 20
3-bar fill at bar 27
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0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2
COUNT-IN
PART S2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesS4S1IS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Only Exception on drums

68 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 138 BPM, 2:57 of playing on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-21, toms through bars 22-29, ride through bars 30-46 and silence through bars 47-68.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 32 and 34, and 5 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    30
    1.....2.....3.....4.....5.....6.....
CC |x-----------------x-----------------|
RD |------x-----x-----------x-----x-----|
SD |------------------x--------------g--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----------------------|
The Only Exception -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 23, 25, 27, 28, 29 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- I -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-46 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Only Exception?

138 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Only Exception hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Only Exception?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 23, 25, 27, 28, 29 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED