Psychobilly Freakout · Reverend Horton Heat

99 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-20, 31-38 and 40-41, and 2 more places -- 62.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
PSYCHOBILLY FREAKOUT · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 21, 25, 26, 42, 46 and 7 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 13 sections: 67 keep time, 13 are fills, 5 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-89.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART S8
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesEGS8S5B+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Psychobilly Freakout?

150 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 Psychobilly Freakout hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Psychobilly Freakout?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 21, 25, 26, 42, 46 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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