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Paranoid Android · Radiohead

EXERCISE 22 OF 38
Join Part I to Part P (bars 73-75)
102 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART P
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBIPCR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paranoid Android on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 5:51 of playing, on crash, ride, 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
123
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-34, ride through bars 35-41, hi-hat through bars 42-61 and ride through bars 62-66, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 25-34 and 42-45, and 2 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 37, 58, 59, 60, 61, 65 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part P and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Paranoid Android?

82 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 Paranoid Android hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Paranoid Android?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 37, 58, 59, 60, 61, 65 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED