I cant Even breath · Deftones

131 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 112 BPM, 3:31 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-17 and 21, and 14 more places -- 51.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
I CANT EVEN BREATH · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 19, 20 and 38 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 15 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 8 sections: 73 keep time, 44 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-9.

CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO
3 groovesCMPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I cant Even breath?

112 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 I cant Even breath hard to play on drums?

54 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 I cant Even breath?

14 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 19, 20 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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