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Korea · Deftones

EXERCISE 7 OF 35
Groove E (a two-bar phrase)
40 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART S5
PART C
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGBOS5C+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Korea on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, ride through bars 22-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34 and ride through bars 35-43, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 11 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x--x|
BD |x-------xx------|
Korea -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 21, 30, 34 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 11-50 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-71 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Korea?

88 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Korea hard to play on drums?

60 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Korea?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 21, 30, 34 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED