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Elite · Deftones

EXERCISE 10 OF 24
Join Part E to Chorus 2 (bars 29-31)
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0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Elite on drums

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

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-30, snare through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-41 and snare through bars 42-48, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |xx-------x------|
Elite -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-43 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 38-73 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED