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Mein · Deftones

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBEQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mein on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
76/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, snare through bars 26-28, hi-hat through bars 29-31 and snare through bars 32-34, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 27-28 and 33-34, and 8 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 37, 45, 69 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mein?

125 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 Mein hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 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 Mein?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 37, 45, 69 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED