Hexagram · Deftones

87 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 98 BPM, 3:56 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-20, 22-25 and 39-42, and 3 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 98 BPM
HEXAGRAM · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 37, 63, 78 and 79.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 11 sections: 45 keep time, 4 are fills, 12 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-51.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART S9
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesDHES11S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hexagram?

98 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Hexagram hard to play on drums?

50 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Hexagram?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 37, 63, 78 and 79.

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