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Nosebleed · Deftones

EXERCISE 4 OF 47
Groove I -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
21 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART Z
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIPYAQZ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nosebleed on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
91/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-9, hi-hat through bars 10-58, ride through bars 59-62, hi-hat through bars 63-70 and ride through bars 71-74, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43, 47 and 51, and 6 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----g-X-g-g-X-g-g-X-g-g-X-g-X-gg|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Nosebleed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 43 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 12-26 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part Z -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nosebleed?

87 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 Nosebleed hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Nosebleed?

9 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED