Parasite · Bullet For My Valentine

213 bars at 216 BPM -- fast, and 3:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
216 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 18-31 and 58-71, and 1 more place -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 216 BPM
PARASITE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 9, 35, 39, 41, 47, 57 and 44 more.

LOOP · 216 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 216 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 216 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 216 BPM
BARS 94-97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 16 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

213 bars across 26 sections: 134 keep time, 50 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 4
PART K
15 groovesDKIFB+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Parasite?

216 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Parasite hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in 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?

213 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Parasite?

8 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 9, 35, 39, 41, 47, 57 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 213 BARS ANALYSED
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