Bored · Deftones

162 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 72 BPM, 4:30 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 57-58, and 15 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BORED · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 28, 32, 48, 56, 60, 68 and 14 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 9 sections: 100 keep time, 20 are fills, 7 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-44.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART X
OUTRO
6 groovesIS1BOX+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bored?

72 BPM, in 2/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Bored hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Bored?

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 28, 32, 48, 56, 60, 68 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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