Birthmark · Deftones

135 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:08
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 102, 104 and 106-107, and 5 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BIRTHMARK · BAR 117
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44 and 21 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 12 sections: 73 keep time, 27 are fills, 18 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-17.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART F
PART D
PART L
PART F
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesYDFTL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Birthmark?

130 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 Birthmark 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Birthmark?

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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