Told You So · Paramore

97 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 13 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
TOLD YOU SO · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 37, 41, 45 and 7 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 11 sections: 69 keep time, 13 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-69.

CHORUS
PART E
VERSE
CHORUS 2
PART E
VERSE 2
PART Q
VERSE 3
7 groovesIBEQS8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Told You So?

124 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 Told You So hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Told You So?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 37, 41, 45 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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