Fireal · Deftones

115 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24 and 47-53 -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
FIREAL · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 21, 34, 38 and 8 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 15 sections: 49 keep time, 15 are fills and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-54.

PART C
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART N
PART Q
OUTRO
BREAK 4
12 groovesS15DJCH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fireal?

132 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 Fireal hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 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 Fireal?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 21, 34, 38 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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