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Paralyzed · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove Q
0 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
PART B
PART I
PART M
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesUMRBAT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paralyzed on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-16, toms through bars 17-18 and hi-hat through bars 19-20, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-26, 29 and 41-42, and 5 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---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

16 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 13-31 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Paralyzed?

82 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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?

16 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED