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Parasite · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove D -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 5
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Parasite on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
216 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
64/100

snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, snare through bars 34-57, hi-hat through bars 58-73, snare through bars 74-105 and toms through bars 106-117, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Parasite -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-33 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-157 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-73 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 107-113 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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