Paranoid · Ozzy osbourne

15 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 0:22 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
15
LENGTH
0:22
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8 and 11-12 -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
PARANOID · BAR 11
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 9, 13 and 15.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

15 bars across 3 sections: 5 keep time, 4 are fills and 4 are silent.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paranoid?

165 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?

47 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

15 bars, about 0:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Paranoid?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 9, 13 and 15.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 15 BARS ANALYSED
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