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Rickets · Deftones

EXERCISE 18 OF 24
Join Part J to Chorus 2 (bars 52-54)
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0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBS6JFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rickets on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 2:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-24, snare through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, snare through bars 37-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-62, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-14, 16-23 and 29-36, and 1 more place -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e
HH |o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x--x--x-x-|
BD |-xx--x----|
Rickets -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 25, 27, 38, 41, 49 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-81 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Rickets?

96 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 Rickets hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 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 Rickets?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 25, 27, 38, 41, 49 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED