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Kimdracula · Deftones

EXERCISE 9 OF 15
Run D1 · Chorus (bars 6-22)
17 / 61 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesS4DCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kimdracula on drums

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.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-15, ride through bars 16-22, hi-hat through bars 23-31 and silence through bars 32-61.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-----x-|
BD |x-x-------x---x-----x-x---------|
Kimdracula -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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