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Goon Squad · Deftones

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART T
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBTFMR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Goon Squad on drums

87 bars, 5:09, at 67 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-40, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 17-19, and 4 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x-xx--xx--xx-x--|
Goon Squad -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 28, 32 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-46 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-43 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Goon Squad?

67 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Goon Squad hard to play on drums?

64 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 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 Goon Squad?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 28, 32 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED