Fragments of Psyche · Gruesome

161 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31-33 and 35-37, and 3 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
FRAGMENTS OF PSYCHE · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 30, 34, 38, 42, 58, 60 and 14 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 16 sections: 85 keep time, 20 are fills, 5 are stops and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 148-160.

COUNT-IN
PART K
PART O
PART V
PART AF
PART AM
CHORUS
PART AT
OUTRO 2
14 groovesS13KAYOAF+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fragments of Psyche?

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

Is Fragments of Psyche hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 20 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 Fragments of Psyche?

16 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 30, 34, 38, 42, 58, 60 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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