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Finger of Death · Deftones

EXERCISE 11 OF 70
Groove I -- Part I
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PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART W
PART AB
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesES10AIAMW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Finger of Death on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, snare through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-56 and snare through bars 57-58, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 17, and 24 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-----x-----|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Finger of Death -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 18, 32, 34, 50, 58, 62 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-73 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Finger of Death?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Finger of Death hard to play on drums?

47 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Finger of Death?

17 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 18, 32, 34, 50, 58, 62 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED