Dai The Flu · Deftones

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 13 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 87 BPM
DAI THE FLU · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 32 and 18 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 14 sections: 56 keep time, 24 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART V
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFSNLC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dai The Flu?

87 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Dai The Flu hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 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 Dai The Flu?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 32 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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