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Psycho · Askatasorra

EXERCISE 11 OF 41
Groove G
73 / 209 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART M
PART C
PART R
PART S
PART C
OUTRO 2
17 groovesACSBM+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Psycho on drums

209 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-13, toms through bars 14-17, silence through bars 18-19, toms through bars 20-23, silence through bars 24-25 and toms through bars 26-29, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 79-84, 87-89 and 91-92, and 12 more places -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
FT |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Psycho -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 55, 59, 61, 62, 68, 96 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- M -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Break 5 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 69-72 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 79-114 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 111-131 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Psycho?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Psycho hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 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 Psycho?

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 55, 59, 61, 62, 68, 96 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 209 BARS ANALYSED