Change (In The House Of Flies) · Deftones

164 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 5:23 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
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 23 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 122 BPM
CHANGE (IN THE HOUSE OF FLIES) · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 58, 64, 68 and 22 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 15 sections: 90 keep time, 28 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 L
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesFPDLJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Change (In The House Of Flies)?

122 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 (In The House Of Flies) hard to play on drums?

55 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 (In The House Of Flies)?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 58, 64, 68 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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