Parasites · Blade and Bath

145 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 5 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
PARASITES · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 47, 48, 63, 64, 80, 92 and 3 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 132 · LANDS ON BAR 133

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 15 sections: 84 keep time, 9 are fills, 34 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-127.

CHORUS
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART D
PART N
OUTRO
12 groovesCFNDL+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Parasites?

120 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 Parasites hard to play on drums?

51 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Parasites?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 47, 48, 63, 64, 80, 92 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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