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Psycho · Muse

EXERCISE 22 OF 43
2-bar fill at bar 55 and 1 more
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0 / 43 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART S11
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Psycho on drums

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

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-18, toms through bars 19-21, silence through bars 22-24 and toms through bars 25-44, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------x-----------x-----|
T2 |x-----x-----------x-----|
FT |---------x--x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Psycho -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- J -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V, O -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part S3 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-53 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-79 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 78-100 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 99-121 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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