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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

225

LENGTH

6:55

DIFFICULTY

80/100

hi-hat through bars 1-33, ride through bars 34-69, hi-hat through bars 70-100, toms through bars 101-118, hi-hat through bars 119-133 and ride through bars 134-177, and 3 more changes after that.

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.

    2                                                                3
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |------------------------------------x---------------------------|----------------x-------x-------x-------x-----------------------|
RD |----------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------x---------------|
HH |----------------------------------------------------------------|o---------------------------------------------------------------|
SD |x-------------------------------x-------x-----------------------|----------------x---------------x-------------------------------|
T1 |----x-----------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
T2 |--------x---x---------------------------------------------------|------------------------x---------------x-----------------------|
FT |----------------x-------x-----------------------x---------------|------------------------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x-------------------x-x-x---x-------x-------x-------|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|

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

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- BA -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
6. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
7. Through Part F and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
8. Through Part L and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
9. and 16 more sittings after that.