Psycho Killer outro · Talking Heads / The Wrecks / Apeldoorners

26 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 0:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
26
LENGTH
0:46
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-17 and 19-21 -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
PSYCHO KILLER OUTRO · BARS 15-16
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 8, 18, 22 and 26.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

26 bars across 4 sections: 16 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-13.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDIAMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Psycho Killer outro?

135 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 Killer outro hard to play on drums?

55 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

26 bars, about 0:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Killer outro?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 8, 18, 22 and 26.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 26 BARS ANALYSED
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