Psychological Necrosis · Haggus

118 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-66 -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 122 BPM
PSYCHOLOGICAL NECROSIS · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 15, 16, 20 and 13 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 67-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 7 sections: 74 keep time, 19 are fills and 17 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-66.

PART A
CHORUS
PART P
PART S
OUTRO 2
6 groovesLAPSM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Psychological Necrosis?

122 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 Psychological Necrosis hard to play on drums?

53 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Psychological Necrosis?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 15, 16, 20 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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