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Told You So · Paramore

EXERCISE 18 OF 39
Join Verse to Chorus 2 (bars 27-29)
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0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Told You So on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 2-54, silence through bars 55-57, hi-hat through bars 58-69, silence through bars 70-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-97.

The beat

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.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxo-xxxxxxo-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x----x--x----|
HF |----x-------x---|
Told You So -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-54 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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