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Fragments of Psyche · Gruesome

EXERCISE 1 OF 82
Groove K -- Part K
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COUNT-IN
PART K
PART O
PART V
PART AF
PART AM
PART K
CHORUS
PART AT
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesS13KAYOAF+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fragments of Psyche on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-13, toms through bars 14-30, hi-hat through bars 31-42, ride through bars 43-49, hi-hat through bars 50-66 and snare through bars 67-69, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Fragments of Psyche -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- K -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AY -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AM -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-29 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part O -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part V -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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