Paradise · Detestor

123 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 27 and 29-31 -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
PARADISE · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 34 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 5-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 11 sections: 55 keep time, 40 are fills, 9 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

PART A
CHORUS
PART AB
PART AH
PART BC
PART K
OUTRO
BREAK 3
11 groovesOBCAHABY+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paradise?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 20 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?

22 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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