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The Human Paradox · Dynazty

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 53 PASSED · 39 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCFXJH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Human Paradox on drums

167 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-33, snare through bars 34-60, hi-hat through bars 61-74, snare through bars 75-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-109, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6-8 and 10, and 10 more places -- 23.5% 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-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
The Human Paradox -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 27, 36, 44 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, X -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Human Paradox?

167 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 The Human Paradox hard to play on drums?

58 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Human Paradox?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 27, 36, 44 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED