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Psycho Circus · KISS

EXERCISE 1 OF 69
Groove E -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEIAJALG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Psycho Circus on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-68, toms through bars 69-88, hi-hat through bars 89-96, toms through bars 97-124 and hi-hat through bars 125-146.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11, 30-35 and 53-59, and 5 more places -- 22.8% 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
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x-----|
Psycho Circus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 12, 20, 26 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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, AJ -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-61 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-66 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-53 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and Part AA -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Psycho Circus?

122 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 Circus hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 14 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 Psycho Circus?

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 12, 20, 26 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED