Leathers · Deftones

149 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31-33, 39-40 and 56-58, and 4 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
LEATHERS · BARS 31-32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 26, 30, 34, 38, 41, 42 and 20 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 18 sections: 68 keep time, 26 are fills, 16 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-90.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART R
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
8 groovesIRBS1L+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Leathers?

118 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 Leathers hard to play on drums?

50 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?

149 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 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 Leathers?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 26, 30, 34, 38, 41, 42 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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