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Change · Deftones

EXERCISE 5 OF 57
Groove N -- Outro
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PART D
CHORUS
PART J
PART K
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFDGKJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Change on drums

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.

56 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
164
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-72, snare through bars 73-86, kick and crashes through bars 87-88, silence through bars 89-94 and kick and crashes through bars 95-96, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------X-------|
BD |x---x-x-------x-|
Change -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 58, 64, 68 and 18 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 -- F, G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-42 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 84-107 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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