This Is Why · Paramore

104 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 53-55, and 6 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 123 BPM
THIS IS WHY · BARS 29-30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 2, 6, 7, 8, 24, 26 and 26 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 10 sections: 60 keep time and 32 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-79.

PART A
PART E
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesLAZEF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Is Why?

123 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 Is Why 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 Is Why?

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 2, 6, 7, 8, 24, 26 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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