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Bored · Deftones

EXERCISE 16 OF 53
Groove L
94 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bored on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-64, toms through bars 65-68, hi-hat through bars 69-108 and ride through bars 109-123, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    49
    1.......2.......
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Bored -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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