Paranoid · Megadeth

114 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 2:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 17 more places -- 55.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 186 BPM
PARANOID · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 40, 92, 96 and 1 more.

LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 114
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 7 sections: 96 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-39.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paranoid?

186 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 32 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Paranoid?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 40, 92, 96 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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