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milk of the madonna · Deftones

EXERCISE 14 OF 34
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
72 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play milk of the madonna on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
79/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-49, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x--------------x--------x-----------|
BD |x--------x--------x-----x-----------------------|
milk of the madonna -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-35 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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