Paranoid · Black Sabbath

112 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 10-11 and 13-15, and 23 more places -- 55% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 163 BPM
PARANOID · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 36, 38, 40 and 2 more.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 6 sections: 77 keep time, 8 are fills, 20 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-99.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paranoid?

163 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Paranoid hard to play on drums?

62 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Paranoid?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 36, 38, 40 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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