Paralyzed · Memphis May Fire

111 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-22, 28-29 and 36-37, and 6 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
PARALYZED · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31 and 28 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 23-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 15 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 40-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 18 sections: 27 keep time, 34 are fills, 37 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-78.

PART B
CHORUS
PART O
PART S9
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART AC
OUTRO 2
16 groovesHACBOX+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paralyzed?

135 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

8 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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