Paradise and Plague · Counterparts

97 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-23, 25 and 58-62, and 1 more place -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
PARADISE AND PLAGUE · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 40 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 11 sections: 29 keep time, 46 are fills, 9 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-54.

CHORUS
PART P
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART P
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBPATACT+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paradise and Plague?

130 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 Paradise and Plague hard to play on drums?

57 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Paradise and Plague?

13 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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