Parasite · KISS

95 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 13, and 15 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 127 BPM
PARASITE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 19, 20, 41 and 15 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 14 sections: 55 keep time, 21 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-33.

CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesBJGAS10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Parasite?

127 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Parasite hard to play on drums?

60 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Parasite?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 19, 20, 41 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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