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MX · Deftones

EXERCISE 5 OF 34
3-bar fill at bar 1
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0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
PART A
VERSE 3
OUTRO
5 groovesFKDAS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play MX on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 4:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
71/100

snare through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-58, silence through bars 59-61, snare through bars 62-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-92.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 15-21 and 32-38, and 2 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |XgXgXgXgXgXgXgXg|XgXgXgXgXgxoxxxo|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x--x----|
MX -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 63, 65, 67 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- F, K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Verse 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 56-69 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-92 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is MX?

76 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 MX hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 MX?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 63, 65, 67 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED