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Paradise City · Guns N' Roses

EXERCISE 23 OF 45
Join Part E to Part I (bars 81-83)
188 / 221 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART I
PART B
PART F
PART F
PART E
PART I
PART F
OUTRO 2
8 groovesRFBEJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paradise City on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
9:18
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-42, hi-hat through bars 43-50 and snare through bars 51-52, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    139
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Paradise City -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- R, B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 81-96 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 86-117 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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