Paradise · Sade

155 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 100% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-155 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 200 BPM
PARADISE · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 2 sections: 154 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-155.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paradise?

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

Is Paradise hard to play on drums?

54 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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