Paralyzed · As I Lay Dying

130 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:01 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41 and 43, and 9 more places -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
PARALYZED · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18 and 35 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 17-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 29-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 13 sections: 67 keep time, 41 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

CHORUS
PART M
PART P
PART T
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART W
PART T
PART AI
8 groovesBTMWAI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paralyzed?

170 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 Paralyzed hard to play on drums?

55 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, 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 Paralyzed?

14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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