Paralyzed · Caliban

142 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcorePop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23-25 and 27, and 8 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
PARALYZED · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 8, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 14 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 12 sections: 83 keep time, 20 are fills, 20 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-64.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART M
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIMDS10V+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paralyzed?

145 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 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 8, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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