Kimdracula · Deftones

61 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 154 BPM, 3:10 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 11-13 and 23, and 2 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 154 BPM
KIMDRACULA · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 18, 19 and 22.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 4 sections: 23 keep time, 3 are fills and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-17.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesS4DCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kimdracula?

154 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Kimdracula hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Kimdracula?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 18, 19 and 22.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
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