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Skillet - Psycho in My Head · Skillet

EXERCISE 10 OF 45
Join Part C to Chorus (bars 16-18)
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0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
PART F
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO
8 groovesDCFRI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 10
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skillet - Psycho in My Head on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
43/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-15, hi-hat through bars 16-22, snare through bars 23-44, toms through bars 45-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-54, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 17-22 and 25-31, and 6 more places -- 40.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Skillet - Psycho in My Head -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 46, 53, 54, 90, 91, 95 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- D, C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-80 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-66 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Skillet - Psycho in My Head?

133 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Skillet - Psycho in My Head hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Skillet - Psycho in My Head?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 46, 53, 54, 90, 91, 95 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED