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Paralyzed · As I Lay Dying

EXERCISE 21 OF 68
Join Part M to Part P (bars 35-37)
82 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART P
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paralyzed on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 1-46, toms through bars 47-48, snare through bars 49-78, toms through bars 79-80, snare through bars 81-108 and toms through bars 109-110, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-x-----x-x---|
Paralyzed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- P, B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-37 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-45 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 41-54 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 50-59 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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