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Change (In The House Of Flies) · Deftones

EXERCISE 7 OF 58
Fill at bar 74, 82, 84 and 3 more (a small one)
65 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Change (In The House Of Flies) on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-72, ride through bars 73-82, snare through bars 83-84, ride through bars 85-86 and kick and crashes through bars 87-88, 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 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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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, P -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-81 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

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