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Entombed Drop D · Deftones

EXERCISE 22 OF 23
Run B4 · Outro 2 (bars 48-68)
42 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Entombed Drop D on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, silence through bars 11-22, hi-hat through bars 23-26, ride through bars 27-29 and kick and crashes through bars 30-32, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5                                                6
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|x-----------------x-----------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----------o-----o-----o-----|------o-----o-----------o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x--------x--------x-----------x--------x--------|
Entombed Drop D -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-48 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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