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Just Like Paradise · David Lee Roth

Just Like Paradise · David Lee Roth
EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove K -- Part K
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Just Like Paradise on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 2-135.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Just Like Paradise -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- K, G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-112 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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