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Parasite · Spinegaze

Parasite · Spinegaze
EXERCISE 3 OF 27
Groove H -- Chorus
12 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Parasite on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-24, toms through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-47, silence through bars 48-55 and ride through bars 56-66, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    80
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x--x-xx-x-x-|
SD |----x-----------|
BD |x---------------|
Parasite -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- M -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Break 3 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-65 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 64-71 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED