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Paralyzed · Caliban

EXERCISE 12 OF 53
Join Part A to Part D (bars 7-9)
69 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART D
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paralyzed on drums

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.

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
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-45, hi-hat through bars 46-52 and snare through bars 53-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-----x-x-x-|
Paralyzed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- I, M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-49 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Bars 49-89 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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