Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away) · Deftones

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17, and 15 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BE QUIET AND DRIVE (FAR AWAY) · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 36, 44, 47 and 39 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 10 sections: 53 keep time, 45 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART C
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBCABIR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away)?

80 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 Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away) hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

117 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away)?

14 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 36, 44, 47 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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