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Engine No. 9 · Deftones

Engine No. 9 · Deftones
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EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove D -- Chorus 3 (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Engine No. 9 on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
80/100

hi-hat through bars 3-49, silence through bars 50-52, toms through bars 53-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-78.

The beat

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.

    7                                8
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x-------x---x---x-------|x---x---x-------x---x-----------|
RD |------------x---------------x---|------------x-------------------|
HH |--------------o---------------o-|--------------o-----------------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x-------------------f---|
T1 |--------------------------------|------------------------x-x-----|
FT |--------------------------------|------------------------x-x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-----x---x-----x-----|x---x-----x-----x---x---------x-|
HF |----------------g---------------|g---------------g---------------|
Engine No. 9 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-30 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-21 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-49 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-69 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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