Paralyzer · Finger Eleven

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 27-32 and 34, and 3 more places -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 106 BPM
PARALYZER · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 25, 26, 49, 50, 58 and 6 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BARS 58-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 15 sections: 50 keep time, 12 are fills, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-22.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCEHNK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paralyzer?

106 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 Paralyzer hard to play on drums?

57 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Paralyzer?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 25, 26, 49, 50, 58 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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