Psychotic · Mike Brown

69 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 1:37 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / Soul150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
1:37
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-40, 54-59 and 62-69 -- 53.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
PSYCHOTIC · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 60 and 61.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 60-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 5 sections: 60 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-40.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Psychotic?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Psychotic hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

69 bars, about 1:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Psychotic?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 60 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Mike Brown drum parts

AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →