Poltergeist · Deftones

108 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-17, 19-20 and 22-23, and 17 more places -- 47.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 156 BPM
POLTERGEIST · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27 and 10 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 8 sections: 50 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-34.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART S6
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesDS8BS6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Poltergeist?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Poltergeist hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Poltergeist?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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