departing the body · Deftones

137 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 39 more places -- 37% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 158 BPM
DEPARTING THE BODY · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 14, 24, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 23 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 30-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 12 sections: 53 keep time, 29 are fills, 36 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-45.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCBKMS10+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is departing the body?

158 BPM, in 4/4, 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 departing the body hard to play on drums?

47 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 departing the body?

18 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 14, 24, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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