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"Paradigm" · Oceans Ate Alaska

EXERCISE 7 OF 51
Fill at bar 20 (a small one)
20 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART M
PART R
PART AG
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGAGDRS1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Paradigm" on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-26, snare through bars 27-41, silence through bars 42-44 and kick and crashes through bars 45-56, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-15 and 75-77, and 1 more place -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10                               11
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |--x---x-----x---x-x-x---x-x-xxxx|x---x-x-----x---xxx---xx----x---|
"Paradigm" -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 8-52 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-25 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-49 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is "Paradigm"?

135 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?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in "Paradigm"?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED