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Paranoid · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 12 OF 14
Groove H
87 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paranoid on drums

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

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

TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-112.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Paranoid -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-41 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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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