Psycho In My Head · Skillet

109 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 21-22 and 25-31, and 7 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 134 BPM
PSYCHO IN MY HEAD · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 46, 53, 54, 90, 91, 95 and 1 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 53-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 90-91 · LANDS ON BAR 92 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 15 sections: 61 keep time, 7 are fills, 22 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-15.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART A
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART U
10 groovesDCUHJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Psycho In My Head?

134 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 In My Head hard to play on drums?

45 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 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 In My Head?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 46, 53, 54, 90, 91, 95 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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