Change · Deftones

164 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 32 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
CHANGE · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 58, 64, 68 and 18 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 14 sections: 95 keep time, 24 are fills, 14 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-24.

PART D
CHORUS
PART J
PART K
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFDGKJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Change?

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 Change hard to play on drums?

56 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Change?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 58, 64, 68 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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