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PARANOID · Unbroken Reign

PARANOID · Unbroken Reign
EXERCISE 23 OF 55
Join Part C to Part J (bars 55-57)
71 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART J
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play PARANOID on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-11, toms through bars 12-13, silence through bars 14-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-28 and snare through bars 29-60, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- G, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-32 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-53 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-58 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 57-75 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 75-109 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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