Psycho · Muse

158 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:03 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 41-43, and 3 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
PSYCHO · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 19, 20, 32 and 15 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 17 sections: 44 keep time, 21 are fills, 61 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-31.

PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART S11
PART B
PART G
12 groovesJABS11G+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Psycho?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

52 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Psycho?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 19, 20, 32 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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