Minerva · Deftones

119 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12-14 and 17-18, and 14 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 123 BPM
MINERVA · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 32, 82, 105, 114 and 118.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 14 sections: 76 keep time, 5 are fills, 12 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-22.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART C
CHORUS
PART D
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGCDKS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Minerva?

123 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 Minerva hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Minerva?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 32, 82, 105, 114 and 118.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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