Psychosocial · Slipknot

157 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, 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 · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 13, 37, 41, 69, 73, 76 and 10 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 76-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 14 sections: 121 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-36.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART S
PART V
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHKVSB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Psychosocial?

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 hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 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?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 13, 37, 41, 69, 73, 76 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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