Paranoid (Live) · Black Sabbath

131 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
17/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 22 more places -- 65.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 172 BPM
PARANOID (LIVE) · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 130.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 130 · LANDS ON BAR 131
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 5 sections: 99 keep time, 1 is a fill, 25 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-100.

CHORUS
PART E
5 groovesBES1S5S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paranoid (Live)?

172 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 (Live) hard to play on drums?

17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 (Live)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 130.

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