Minus Blindfold · Deftones

135 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-11 and 19-21, and 16 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
MINUS BLINDFOLD · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 17, 37, 47 and 19 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 12 sections: 81 keep time, 25 are fills, 2 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-66.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGDLS12S10+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Minus Blindfold?

145 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 Minus Blindfold hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 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 Minus Blindfold?

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 17, 37, 47 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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