Psychosocial (Drop C) · Slipknot

156 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 13 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
PSYCHOSOCIAL (DROP C) · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 36, 39, 68, 71, 75 and 11 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 75-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 14 sections: 118 keep time, 17 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-35.

CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART V
PART Y
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKNVABY+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Psychosocial (Drop C)?

135 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 Psychosocial (Drop C) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Psychosocial (Drop C)?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 36, 39, 68, 71, 75 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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