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Paradise · Detestor

Paradise · Detestor
EXERCISE 4 OF 79
Groove K -- Part K
12 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART BC, PART K
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paradise on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-24, ride through bars 25-30, snare through bars 31-33, hi-hat through bars 34-35 and ride through bars 36-45, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17                                                               18
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------x-------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x-------x-------x---------------|
HH |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------o-------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x---x-------x---x-------x-------x-------|x-------x---x-------x---x---------------x-------x-------x---x---|
Paradise -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- O -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AB -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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