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Paranoid (Live) · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 12 PASSED · 83 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART E
5 groovesBES1S5S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paranoid (Live) on drums

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.

17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
17/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-113, hi-hat through bars 114-121 and kick and crashes through bars 122-131.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
T2 |x-------x-------|
Paranoid (Live) -- 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 130.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED