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Parabola · Tool

EXERCISE 1 OF 67
Groove E -- Part E
0 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART G
PART Q
PART Y
PART AF
PART AP
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesS11AFQASE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Parabola on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 5:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
82/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44 and ride through bars 45-52, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15 -- 6.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |--------X-----------------------|
T1 |--x-------x---X-----X-g---x-x-x-|
T2 |------------x---g---x---g---g---|
FT |x---x---------------------------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-------|
Parabola -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 16, 24, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Parabola?

97 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 Parabola 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 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Parabola?

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 16, 24, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED