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Parasites · Blade and Bath

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove B
0 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT
PART S2
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Parasites on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, snare through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-22, snare through bars 23-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-30, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----|
Parasites -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-89 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-81 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-93 -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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