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Paragon Of Purity · Ingested

EXERCISE 30 OF 77
Fill at bar 72 (a small one)
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0 / 77 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART AA
PART AD
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJCKWF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paragon Of Purity on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
78/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-34, hi-hat through bars 35-36, snare through bars 37-60, kick and crashes through bars 61-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-72, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 35 and 39, and 3 more places -- 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.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Paragon Of Purity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 16, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-20 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-37 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-68 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Paragon Of Purity?

132 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 Paragon Of Purity hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Paragon Of Purity?

17 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 16, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED