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Entombed (Drop Bb Tuning) by Deftones · Misc Covers

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove D -- Chorus 3 (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART S8
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
VERSE
7 groovesDCBGS8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Entombed (Drop Bb Tuning) by Deftones on drums

78 bars, 4:48, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-22, snare through bars 23-34, ride through bars 35-42 and silence through bars 43-47, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-21, 35-41 and 52-58, and 1 more place -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|x-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x--x-xx--x-x---x|
Entombed (Drop Bb Tuning) by Deftones -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 70.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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, C -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 6-20 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-66 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Entombed (Drop Bb Tuning) by Deftones?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Entombed (Drop Bb Tuning) by Deftones hard to play on drums?

54 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Entombed (Drop Bb Tuning) by Deftones?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 70.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED