Paradise Lost · Exodus Rising

333 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 6:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
333
LENGTH
6:40
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12-14 and 16-18, and 16 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
PARADISE LOST · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 6, 7, 22, 23, 47, 54 and 20 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 54-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

333 bars across 26 sections: 215 keep time, 26 are fills, 25 are stops and 44 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-146.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 4
CHORUS 4
PART AD
PART T
PART U
19 groovesDJS15UT+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paradise Lost?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Paradise Lost hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

333 bars, about 6:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Lost?

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 6, 7, 22, 23, 47, 54 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 333 BARS ANALYSED
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