Elite · Deftones

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 12-22 and 33-40, and 1 more place -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 91 BPM
ELITE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 23, 49 and 72.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 13 sections: 73 keep time, 3 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-22.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART E
PART C
PART E
OUTRO
7 groovesBCES7J+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Elite?

91 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Elite hard to play on drums?

59 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Elite?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 23, 49 and 72.

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