Paradise City · Guns N' Roses

221 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 9:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
9:18
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 123-128, 131-136 and 139-160, and 1 more place -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 94 BPM
PARADISE CITY · BAR 139
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 28, 40, 42, 50, 52 and 21 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

221 bars across 14 sections: 157 keep time, 27 are fills and 24 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 163-214.

PART B
PART F
PART F
PART F
OUTRO 2
8 groovesRFBEJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paradise City?

94 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 City hard to play on drums?

53 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 9:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 City?

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 28, 40, 42, 50, 52 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED
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