Pareidolia · Kevin Sherwood

125 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 98-125 -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
PAREIDOLIA · BAR 98
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 14, 18, 27, 28, 40, 43 and 7 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 14 sections: 94 keep time, 13 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-125.

PART B
PART D
PART J
PART D
PART J
PART O
PART Q
PART S
OUTRO 2
12 groovesYDJBO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pareidolia?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Pareidolia hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Pareidolia?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 14, 18, 27, 28, 40, 43 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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