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Dai The Flu · Deftones

EXERCISE 9 OF 50
Groove L -- Part L (a two-bar phrase)
44 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dai The Flu on drums

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.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
84/100

snare through bars 2-18, hi-hat through bars 19-67, ride through bars 68-83, hi-hat through bars 84-95 and snare through bars 96-100.

The beat

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.

    12
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------X---x-------------------|
HH |----o-----------o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------X---------------X-----xx|
BD |x-----xx----x-----x-x-------x---|
Dai The Flu -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-18 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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