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This Is Why · Paramore

EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove L -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Is Why on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
62/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, ride through bars 45-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-86, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29               30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-o---x-|o-x-x-x-o---o---|
SD |----x-------xx--|----x-----------|
BD |x--x------x-----|x--x----x---x---|
HF |------------x---|-x-------x---x--|
This Is Why -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, AA -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-37 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-47 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

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