PARADISE · I Prevail & Amira Elfeky

122 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 41-43, and 1 more place -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
PARADISE · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 12, 40, 44, 86, 90 and 5 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 12 sections: 50 keep time, 11 are fills, 26 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-38.

PART C
PART D
PART F
PART J
PART F
BREAK 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesS8AAFS11J+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is PARADISE?

152 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 12, 40, 44, 86, 90 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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