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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

79 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

84

LENGTH

4:15

DIFFICULTY

53/100

hi-hat through bars 3-21, ride through bars 22-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-31, hi-hat through bars 32-50, ride through bars 51-58 and kick and crashes through bars 59-61, and 4 more changes after that.

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.

    21               22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x-----x-x-|x---------------|
RD |----------------|--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-----x-----x---|--------x-------|
T2 |--x-x---x-x-----|----------------|
FT |--x-x---x-x-----|----------------|
BD |--x-x---x-x---x-|x-xx-xx-----xx--|

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

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- J -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, F (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Through Part B and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
4. Bars 19-35 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.