Parallels · As I Lay Dying

118 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-42, 44-45 and 54-60, and 4 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
PARALLELS · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 11, 15, 19, 27, 31, 35 and 12 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 16 sections: 77 keep time, 18 are fills, 8 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-78.

PART B
PART D
PART K
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART W
PART Y
CHORUS 3
13 groovesODYBV+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Parallels?

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 Parallels hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Parallels?

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 11, 15, 19, 27, 31, 35 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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