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Paradise Lost · Exodus Rising

Paradise Lost · Exodus Rising
EXERCISE 10 OF 93
Groove F
151 / 333 BARS COVERED
0 / 93 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 18
LINK · 11
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paradise Lost on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
333
LENGTH
6:40
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-7, snare through bars 8-39, hi-hat through bars 40-47, snare through bars 48-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-71, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- D, U -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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