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cut hands · Deftones

EXERCISE 30 OF 31
Run S121 · Outro (bars 128-142)
118 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART G
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesKODGS12+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play cut hands on drums

142 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 155 BPM, 3:07 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-38, silence through bars 39-41, hi-hat through bars 42-107, silence through bars 108-110 and hi-hat through bars 111-125, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 79-91 and 93-106 -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    79           80
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|------------|
HH |----o---o---|o---o---o---|
SD |------------|x-----------|
BD |x-----x-x---|------------|
cut hands -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 22, 61, 119 and 124.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- O, K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-78 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 79-126 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is cut hands?

155 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is cut hands hard to play on drums?

46 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in cut hands?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 22, 61, 119 and 124.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED