Just Like Paradise · David Lee Roth

135 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40, 42-48 and 50-56, and 6 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
JUST LIKE PARADISE · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 32, 33, 41, 49, 57 and 9 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 8 sections: 92 keep time, 15 are fills, 20 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

PART C
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGKCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Just Like Paradise?

135 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 Just Like Paradise hard to play on drums?

51 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Just Like Paradise?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 32, 33, 41, 49, 57 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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