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Parasocial Christ · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 1 OF 64
Groove Q -- Chorus
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PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART B
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART AK
PART AP
OUTRO
10 groovesQBAPAEH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Parasocial Christ on drums

135 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 2-3, ride through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-7, snare through bars 8-11, hi-hat through bars 12-18 and ride through bars 19-21, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-32, 60-65 and 106, and 1 more place -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |--x---xx--x---xx|
Parasocial Christ -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 5, 8, 9, 17, 20 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- Q, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-27 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 22-38 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-78 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Parasocial Christ?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Parasocial Christ hard to play on drums?

58 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?

135 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Parasocial Christ?

14 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 5, 8, 9, 17, 20 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED