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Psychotic · Mike Brown

Psychotic · Mike Brown
EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 17 PASSED · 37 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Psychotic on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
1:37
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-41, snare through bars 42-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-69.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Psychotic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- E, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 6-21 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 38-57 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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