ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play psycho-orgy on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 2:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO: 98 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 72
LENGTH: 2:56
DIFFICULTY: 79/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-35, ride through bars 36-39, hi-hat through bars 40-48 and silence through bars 49-60, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 41-43, and 1 more place -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21                               22
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
RD |--------------------------------|x---x-x-----x---x---x-x-----x---|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|--------------------------------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

psycho-orgy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 56 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 9-21 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
and 5 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is psycho-orgy?

98 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-orgy hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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-orgy?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 56 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED