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Parasite · LW

Parasite · LW
EXERCISE 2 OF 43
Groove D -- Part D
31 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 5
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Parasite on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
61/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-13, hi-hat through bars 14-24, ride through bars 25-40, silence through bars 41-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-66, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxx----xxxx----|
Parasite -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-41 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Break 3 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 81-91 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Break 6 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED