Paradigm Shift · Liquid Tension Experiment

227 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 4:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-19 and 42-44, and 1 more place -- 4.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
PARADIGM SHIFT · BAR 15
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

33 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 29 and 58 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 10-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 29-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

29 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

227 bars across 27 sections: 116 keep time, 64 are fills, 12 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-86.

PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AL
PART BI
PART DE
22 groovesIDEMBAAV+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paradigm Shift?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Paradigm Shift hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 108 exercises over 39 sittings, about 26 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 Shift?

33 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 29 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED
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