Paradigm · Avenged Sevenfold

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24 and 39-45 -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
PARADIGM · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 25, 46, 50, 59, 72, 77 and 11 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 13 sections: 63 keep time, 18 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-24.

PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART J
PART O
PART R
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFHJAGD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paradigm?

98 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Paradigm hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Paradigm?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 25, 46, 50, 59, 72, 77 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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