This Circle · Paramore

134 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29 and 31, and 26 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
THIS CIRCLE · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 20, 32, 36, 44, 64, 76 and 15 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 10 sections: 82 keep time, 21 are fills, 16 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEBRJS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Circle?

140 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 This Circle hard to play on drums?

56 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 This Circle?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 20, 32, 36, 44, 64, 76 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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