ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play PARADISE on drums

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.

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

TEMPO: 152 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 122
LENGTH: 3:13
DIFFICULTY: 59/100

toms through bars 1-18, silence through bars 19-20, snare through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, toms through bars 37-40 and snare through bars 41-49, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21                                               22
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-x-----x-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

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

The grooves the song is built on -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 12-28 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part F and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 37-50 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 74-99 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
and 2 more sittings after that.

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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