Parasite · Spinegaze

91 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 80-91 -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 119 BPM
PARASITE · BAR 80
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 17 sections: 73 keep time and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-47.

PART B
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
BREAK 4
PART K
PART D
OUTRO
16 groovesHMKBD+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Parasite?

119 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?

55 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?

91 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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