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Psychosocial · Slipknot

EXERCISE 4 OF 47
Groove B -- Part B
101 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Psychosocial on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-9, snare through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-37, snare through bars 38-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-69, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    15
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Psychosocial -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V, K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 8-14 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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