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Paralyzer · Finger Eleven

Paralyzer · Finger Eleven
EXERCISE 3 OF 48
Groove H -- Outro 2
40 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCEHNK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paralyzer on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 2-24, snare through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-48, snare through bars 49-50, hi-hat through bars 51-65 and snare through bars 66-70, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Paralyzer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-35 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-61 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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