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Paramar · Los Prisioneros

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS1GAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paramar on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-28, hi-hat through bars 29-85, ride through bars 86-102 and hi-hat through bars 103-137.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-45, 47-57 and 59-69, and 7 more places -- 68.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 28, 70, 100, 101, 102, 114 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Paramar?

147 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 Paramar hard to play on drums?

48 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?

137 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Paramar?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 28, 70, 100, 101, 102, 114 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED