Paradise By The Dashboard Light · Meat Loaf

347 bars at 254 BPM -- fast, and 6:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
254 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
347
LENGTH
6:17
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-24, 36-41 and 75-90, and 2 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 254 BPM
PARADISE BY THE DASHBOARD LIGHT · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 42, 47, 74, 91, 92, 111 and 17 more.

LOOP · 254 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 254 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 254 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 254 BPM
BARS 91-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

347 bars across 26 sections: 215 keep time, 23 are fills, 18 are stops and 66 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-27.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART Y
PART AK
BREAK
19 groovesBS26AKYAG+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paradise By The Dashboard Light?

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

Is Paradise By The Dashboard Light hard to play on drums?

59 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

347 bars, about 6:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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 Paradise By The Dashboard Light?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 42, 47, 74, 91, 92, 111 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 347 BARS ANALYSED
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