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This Circle · Paramore

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 37 PASSED · 43 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Circle on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-30, snare through bars 31-44, hi-hat through bars 45-74, snare through bars 75-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-93, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
This Circle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- E, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-94 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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