Paranoid
Black Sabbath · 1970
An up-tempo two-and-four workout for developing steady fast time.
- Artist
- Black Sabbath
- Year
- 1970
- Genre
- classic rock
- Drummer
- Bill Ward
- Tempo
- 162 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- fast straight rock
- Difficulty
- intermediate
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
98bpm
Building
130bpm
Target
162bpm
The feel
A fast straight rock in 4/4 around 162 BPM. It's fast — economy of motion is everything; speed comes from relaxation, not force.
What to watch
- •Play to a metronome and prize consistency over speed — even time is the whole game.
How to learn it
Well-known tutorials exist for this one — use the links below, and play along from your own copy.
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Learn it
Find drum tutorials on YouTube ↗iDrum links to where lessons already live — we don't host recordings or publish transcriptions. Play along from your own music.
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