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Beauty School · Deftones

EXERCISE 8 OF 33
5-bar fill at bar 22 and 1 more
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART G
OUTRO
6 groovesBGIS1S9+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beauty School on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-26, ride through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-32, ride through bars 33-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-44, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-21, 47-57 and 59-61 -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x-------x----|
Beauty School -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-37 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 43-77 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 79-99 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Beauty School?

106 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 Beauty School hard to play on drums?

60 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?

113 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 Beauty School?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30 and 18 more.

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