Risk · Deftones

110 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-28, 31 and 48-54, and 3 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 118 BPM
RISK · BARS 22-23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 24 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 2-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 8-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 13 sections: 61 keep time, 31 are fills, 8 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-110.

PART B
PART C
PART I
CHORUS
PART S5
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesMITCB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Risk?

118 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 Risk hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Risk?

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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