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Psychedelic Mix · Anakreenskyrider

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove F -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFHMGA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Psychedelic Mix on drums

165 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
28/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-20, hi-hat through bars 21-65, toms through bars 66-81 and snare through bars 82-89, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 30-36 and 44-50, and 3 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |------------x---|
SD |r-------r-x-----|
T1 |----x-----------|
BD |--------------x-|
Psychedelic Mix -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 89, 141, 145 and 165.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- F, H, M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 7-142 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 36-72 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 65-90 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 86-142 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Psychedelic Mix?

160 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 Psychedelic Mix hard to play on drums?

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Psychedelic Mix?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 89, 141, 145 and 165.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED