PARASITE · Wolves At The Gate

134 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 64-65, 68-69 and 72-73, and 4 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
PARASITE · BARS 64-65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 18 and 29 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 20 sections: 60 keep time, 35 are fills, 15 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-110.

PART C
PART G
PART K
PART M
PART C
PART M
CHORUS
PART AG
PART S17
PART C
OUTRO
15 groovesYCMGAG+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is PARASITE?

138 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 18 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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