ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paradigm on drums

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.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO: 98 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 101
LENGTH: 4:07
DIFFICULTY: 87/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, toms through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-25, snare through bars 26-38, hi-hat through bars 39-46 and snare through bars 47-63, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
T2 |------x-----------------------x-----------------|
FT |--x-x---x-x---x-x-x-x-x---x-x---x-x---x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|

Paradigm -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 6-34 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 33-51 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
Through Part J and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
Through Part O and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 8 more sittings after that.

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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