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Hole In The Earth · Deftones

EXERCISE 21 OF 63
3-bar fill at bar 12
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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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hole In The Earth on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-13, hi-hat through bars 14-32 and ride through bars 33-36, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Break and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 5-15 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 15-45 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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