Back to School · Deftones

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 22-23 and 33-35, and 8 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BACK TO SCHOOL · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 24, 31, 32 and 10 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 9 sections: 50 keep time, 16 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

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

Questions

What BPM is Back to School?

86 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 Back to School hard to play on drums?

62 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Back to School?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 24, 31, 32 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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