Hole In The Earth · Deftones

126 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 103 BPM, 3:40 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-26, 28-29 and 46-57 -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 103 BPM
HOLE IN THE EARTH · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 31 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 12-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 30-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 12 sections: 72 keep time, 37 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-29.

PART D
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesOJSDB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hole In The Earth?

103 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Hole In The Earth hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hole In The Earth?

15 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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