976-EVIL · Deftones

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-22, 25-26 and 29, and 5 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 79 BPM
976-EVIL · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 16, 18, 20 and 12 more.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 10 sections: 50 keep time, 18 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-80.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJDBS9S8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 976-EVIL?

79 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 976-EVIL hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 976-EVIL?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 16, 18, 20 and 12 more.

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