Lifter · Deftones

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 5 and 7-9, and 7 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
LIFTER · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 31 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 39-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 62-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 71-90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 20 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 5 sections: 46 keep time, 37 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-32.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBIS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lifter?

80 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 Lifter hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 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 Lifter?

4 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 31 more.

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