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Hearts / Wires · Deftones

EXERCISE 5 OF 37
Groove C -- Part C
64 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART I, CHORUS 2
PART C
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKICNF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hearts / Wires on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-50, ride through bars 51-52, hi-hat through bars 53-76, ride through bars 77-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-84, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45, 47 and 49, and 15 more places -- 22.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Hearts / Wires -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 50, 76, 78, 88, 90, 94 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- K, I -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-31 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-80 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-91 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hearts / Wires?

127 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 Hearts / Wires hard to play on drums?

48 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Hearts / Wires?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 50, 76, 78, 88, 90, 94 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED