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Paranoid · Megadeth

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove E -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paranoid on drums

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.

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
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-56, ride through bars 57-72, hi-hat through bars 73-80 and ride through bars 81-88, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- E, F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-75 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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