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Parasites Official · Polaris

EXERCISE 25 OF 60
Fill at bar 38 and 104
59 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART H
PART T
CHORUS
PART AK
PART S6
PART BB
PART BH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesWAKHTBB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Parasites Official on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16 and ride through bars 17-24, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-34, 37-38 and 78, and 4 more places -- 11.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x-x-x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|--x---x-----xxxx|
Parasites Official -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 58 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- W -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T, BB -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-25 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part T -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-49 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AK -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Parasites Official?

148 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 Parasites Official hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

114 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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.

How many fills are in Parasites Official?

15 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED