Violent Paroxysm · Jawbreaker

188 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-48, 73-88 and 170-184 -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 220 BPM
VIOLENT PAROXYSM · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 56, 60, 104, 105, 109, 122 and 9 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 104-105 · LANDS ON BAR 106 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 15 sections: 137 keep time, 15 are fills, 18 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-48.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
PART P
CHORUS 3
11 groovesEPHFA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Violent Paroxysm?

220 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 Violent Paroxysm hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 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 Violent Paroxysm?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 56, 60, 104, 105, 109, 122 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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