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Genesis · Deftones

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesS10BCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Genesis on drums

75 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 118 BPM, 4:56 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-13, ride through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25 and ride through bars 26-30, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 14-17 and 27-30 -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x----x--x-x-----x----x--x-|
Genesis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 21, 23, 25, 34, 36 and 38.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 8-22 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-27 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Genesis?

118 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Genesis hard to play on drums?

42 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Genesis?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 21, 23, 25, 34, 36 and 38.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED