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Psychosocial (LIVE from Day Of The Gusano) · Slipknot

EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove K -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART P
PART Z
PART AC
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKPACZS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Psychosocial (LIVE from Day Of The Gusano) on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
80/100

hi-hat through bars 3-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-36, snare through bars 37-43, hi-hat through bars 44-68 and snare through bars 69-76, and 8 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 14 more places -- 27.3% 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-----------x-----------x-----------|
Psychosocial (LIVE from Day Of The Gusano) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 12, 36, 39, 43, 44, 68 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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, P -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-13 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Psychosocial (LIVE from Day Of The Gusano)?

150 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 (LIVE from Day Of The Gusano) hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Psychosocial (LIVE from Day Of The Gusano)?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 12, 36, 39, 43, 44, 68 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED