PARANOID · Unbroken Reign

164 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:12 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-40, 42 and 44-51, and 1 more place -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
PARANOID · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 36, 56, 84, 92, 123 and 1 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 23 sections: 113 keep time, 7 are fills, 9 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-108.

PART C
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART V
PART AB
PART Z
17 groovesGABCRF+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is PARANOID?

155 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?

45 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 36, 56, 84, 92, 123 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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