Damone · Deftones

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 5:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18, 20 and 34-36, and 7 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 86 BPM
DAMONE · BARS 35-36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 21, 29, 33 and 15 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 11 sections: 59 keep time, 21 are fills, 9 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJABCMF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Damone?

86 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 Damone hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Damone?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 21, 29, 33 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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