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Mascara · Deftones

EXERCISE 18 OF 18
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART C
PART S3
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDCS1AS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mascara on drums

65 bars, 3:31, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-17, silence through bars 18-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and snare through bars 41-48, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14-16, and 3 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----X-------X--g|
BD |x-------x-------|
Mascara -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 32 and 44.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 24-65 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Mascara?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Mascara hard to play on drums?

45 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Mascara?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 32 and 44.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED