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Hexagram · Deftones

EXERCISE 3 OF 22
Groove E -- Part E
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART S9
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesDHES11S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hexagram on drums

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

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-16, hi-hat through bars 17-26, ride through bars 27-38, hi-hat through bars 39-40 and snare through bars 41-47, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x-x--x--x-x-x-x-|
BD |-x-----x-x---x--|
Hexagram -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- H, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 9-38 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-64 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED