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Minerva · Deftones

EXERCISE 6 OF 38
Groove E
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0 / 38 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART C, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Minerva on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-31, hi-hat through bars 32-38, ride through bars 39-61, hi-hat through bars 62-66 and snare through bars 67-70, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-------------gg|
BD |x---x-------x-------------------|
Minerva -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-42 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-56 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 82-96 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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