The Paradox · Eternal Spirit

136 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 29, and 13 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
THE PARADOX · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 22 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 10-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 9 sections: 63 keep time, 28 are fills, 17 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-58.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
BREAK 4
OUTRO
5 groovesMDS8S2S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Paradox?

150 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 The Paradox hard to play on drums?

46 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Paradox?

6 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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