8 Billion Parasites · Veilborn

225 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
6:55
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 5 more places -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
8 BILLION PARASITES · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25 and 52 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 17-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 29-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

225 bars across 23 sections: 135 keep time, 58 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

CHORUS
PART F
PART Q
PART AP
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART Q
PART AB
PART BA
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBABFQAP+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 8 Billion Parasites?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 8 Billion Parasites hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 6:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 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 8 Billion Parasites?

18 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED
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