Engine No. 9 · Deftones

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-8, 10 and 25-26, and 8 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 93 BPM
ENGINE NO. 9 · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 6, 11, 20, 24, 29, 35 and 13 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 13 sections: 41 keep time, 19 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDIBSA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Engine No. 9?

93 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 Engine No. 9 hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Engine No. 9?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 6, 11, 20, 24, 29, 35 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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