Prey · Parkway Drive

136 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 30-36 and 66-72, and 4 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 133 BPM
PREY · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 13, 37, 45, 49, 61, 73 and 10 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 12 sections: 100 keep time, 16 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-12.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBRHIE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Prey?

133 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 Prey hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Prey?

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 13, 37, 45, 49, 61, 73 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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