Be Quiet And Drive - Deftones · Deftones

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

85 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

99

LENGTH

4:40

DIFFICULTY

59/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-36, ride through bars 37-44 and snare through bars 45-47, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17, and 18 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x-x-xx--x-x-x|

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 36, 44, 48 and 18 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, J (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
6. Through Part S -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Through Part C and Part S -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through Part S and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.