Parasite · LW

150 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-39 and 67-82 -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
PARASITE · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 103, 115, 124, 125 and 132.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 124-125 · LANDS ON BAR 126 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 132 · LANDS ON BAR 133
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 22 sections: 119 keep time, 7 are fills, 4 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-40.

PART D
CHORUS
PART G
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
20 groovesEDLGJ+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Parasite?

165 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?

61 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 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 103, 115, 124, 125 and 132.

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