This Side of Paradise · Coyote Theory

125 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 158 BPM, 2:38 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieJazz / Blues150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-84 and 113-123 -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 158 BPM
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 44, 48, 52, 59, 60, 88 and 9 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 11 sections: 85 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-84.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesENCS1I+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Side of Paradise?

158 BPM, in 3/4, 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 This Side of Paradise hard to play on drums?

62 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 This Side of Paradise?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 44, 48, 52, 59, 60, 88 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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