ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paranoid Cover on drums

114 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 2:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 163 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 114
LENGTH: 2:48
DIFFICULTY: 91/100

snare through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-17, snare through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-30, snare through bars 31-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-94, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-23, 26-27 and 30, and 16 more places -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    22                                               23
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
HH |------------------o-----------o-----------o-----|------------------------------------------------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--x--x--x--|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-x-x-x-x-x-|

Paranoid Cover -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 114.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
and 4 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Paranoid Cover?

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

Is Paranoid Cover hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Cover?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 114.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED