milk of the madonna · Deftones

110 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 5 more places -- 21.6% 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
MILK OF THE MADONNA · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 28, 32, 49 and 12 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 10 sections: 69 keep time, 18 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAGIDS9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is milk of the madonna?

118 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 milk of the madonna hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 13 sittings, about 21 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 milk of the madonna?

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 28, 32, 49 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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