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This Side of Paradise · Coyote Theory

This Side of Paradise · Coyote Theory
EXERCISE 4 OF 32
Groove E -- Chorus
50 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Side of Paradise on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-40, ride through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-52 and ride through bars 53-60, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
SD |xggXggxggXgg|
BD |x-----x-----|
This Side of Paradise -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- N, C -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 59-71 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 64-112 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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