ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eien Parasites on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 100 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 129
LENGTH: 5:10
DIFFICULTY: 91/100

hi-hat through bars 3-9, ride through bars 10-18, snare through bars 19-24, ride through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-30 and snare through bars 31-33, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 4 more places -- 5.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---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-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

Eien Parasites -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 11, 13, 19 and 46 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- BG -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes. Open above.
Through Part C and Part BG -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part C and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 16-27 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
and 11 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Eien Parasites?

100 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 Eien Parasites hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 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 Eien Parasites?

23 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 11, 13, 19 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED