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Poltergeist · Deftones

EXERCISE 4 OF 30
Groove B -- Part B
38 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Poltergeist on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-16, snare through bars 17-27, hi-hat through bars 28-44, snare through bars 45-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-58, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---x---|
BD |x--x--x-------x-|
Poltergeist -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-63 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-86 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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