ALO-A · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Psychoterapie

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 27-30 and 33-36, and 5 more places -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
36/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 185 BPM
PSYCHOTERAPIE · BAR 17

It is played on snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 21 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 36 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 139 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 139, 162 and 185 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Psychoterapie use?

A one-bar groove on snare and kick, in 4/4 at 185 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 35% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 17-23, 27-30, 33-36 and 44-46, and 4 more places. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 23 times over the song.

Is the beat in Psychoterapie hard?

21 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED