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Cyco Vision · Suicidal Tendencies

EXERCISE 3 OF 35
Groove O -- Part O (a two-bar phrase)
42 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
CHORUS
PART J
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEJOHD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cyco Vision on drums

81 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 1:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
1:44
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 2-3, silence through bars 4-6, snare through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, toms through bars 27-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-42, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 19-25 and 52-58, and 2 more places -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Cyco Vision -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 26, 30, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 2-10 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-63 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-31 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-52 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-81 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cyco Vision?

187 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 Cyco Vision hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 1:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Cyco Vision?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 26, 30, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED