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Birthmark · Deftones

EXERCISE 6 OF 54
Join Part D to Part F (bars 16-18)
64 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART F
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Birthmark on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, ride through bars 21-27, hi-hat through bars 28-48, ride through bars 49-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-76, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    117
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |-------x--x----x|
Birthmark -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- Y, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-85 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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