Paraíso · El Zar

117 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-26, 30-35 and 38-46, and 7 more places -- 75.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
PARAÍSO · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 28, 36, 66, 74, 91, 99 and 1 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 2 sections: 107 keep time, 7 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-65.

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

Questions

What BPM is Paraíso?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Paraíso hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Paraíso?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 28, 36, 66, 74, 91, 99 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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