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Parasite · Psychonaut 4

EXERCISE 26 OF 67
Join Part M to Part L (bars 67-69)
158 / 324 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART L
PART E
PART M
PART L
CHORUS
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesS23AFLJM+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 7
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Parasite on drums

324 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 11:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
324
LENGTH
11:16
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-13, silence through bars 14-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-18, ride through bars 19-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-52, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 245-252, 254-259 and 261, and 12 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    277
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|
Parasite -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 44, 52, 64 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- AF, L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-127 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Parasite?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

52 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

324 bars, about 11:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 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?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 44, 52, 64 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 324 BARS ANALYSED