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PARASITE · Wolves At The Gate

PARASITE · Wolves At The Gate
EXERCISE 17 OF 71
Groove H
43 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play PARASITE on drums

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.

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
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-45, hi-hat through bars 46-51 and snare through bars 52-78, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    64               65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |-xx-x-----------|--xxxx-----x--x-|
PARASITE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-37 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-46 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-52 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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