Battle-Axe · Deftones

156 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 5:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 45 and 69-75, and 5 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BATTLE-AXE · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 22, 32, 36, 52, 68 and 10 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 9 sections: 114 keep time, 16 are fills and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 141-155.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesLJHES1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Battle-Axe?

111 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 Battle-Axe hard to play on drums?

54 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Battle-Axe?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 22, 32, 36, 52, 68 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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