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.

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

TEMPO

86 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

81

LENGTH

3:46

DIFFICULTY

62/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, snare through bars 33-52, hi-hat through bars 53-69 and ride through bars 70-77, and 1 more change after that.

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x-x-xx--x-x-x|

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

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
5. Through Part D and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
7. Bars 40-59 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.