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Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away) · Deftones

EXERCISE 31 OF 52
Groove R -- Part R (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 52 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away) on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-36, ride through bars 37-44 and snare through bars 45-47, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    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|
Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-68 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 79-96 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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