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Hearts/Wires · Deftones

EXERCISE 17 OF 48
Fill at bar 50 (a small one)
92 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKHEWN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hearts/Wires on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
57/100

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 17 more places -- 20.7% 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

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 50, 76, 77, 78, 85, 86 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 55-87 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hearts/Wires?

129 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?

57 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Hearts/Wires?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 50, 76, 77, 78, 85, 86 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED