Small Town Boy · Paradise Lost

160 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32, 57-83 and 85-123, and 2 more places -- 69.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 126 BPM
SMALL TOWN BOY · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 44, 55 and 6 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 13-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 8 sections: 129 keep time, 12 are fills, 4 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-83.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEFHBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Small Town Boy?

126 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 Small Town Boy hard to play on drums?

53 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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 Small Town Boy?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 44, 55 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Paradise Lost drum parts

EVERY PARADISE LOST CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →