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Minus Blindfold · Deftones

EXERCISE 17 OF 47
Join Chorus to Part L (bars 29-31)
89 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART L
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Minus Blindfold on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-90, snare through bars 91-95, hi-hat through bars 96-112, silence through bars 113-116 and hi-hat through bars 117-124, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----g-----x-----g-----x-----g-----x-----g-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----------------------------------------|
Minus Blindfold -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-46 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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