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Psychosocial (Drop C) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 19 OF 51
Groove Q
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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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Psychosocial (Drop C) on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-36, snare through bars 37-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-68, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    14
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Psychosocial (Drop C) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- K, N -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-13 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-37 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-80 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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