Entombed Drop D · Deftones

68 bars, 4:11, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-8, 23-26 and 40-42, and 2 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 65 BPM
ENTOMBED DROP D · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 31, 47, 51, 55, 56, 57 and 7 more.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 65 BPM
BARS 55-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 9 sections: 23 keep time, 13 are fills, 3 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-9.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART S6
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBS3S6DH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Entombed Drop D?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 D hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 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 Entombed Drop D?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 31, 47, 51, 55, 56, 57 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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