Rocket Skates · Deftones

148 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 3:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-35, 58-72 and 106, and 2 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 151 BPM
ROCKET SKATES · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 7, 11, 12, 15, 19, 20 and 17 more.

LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 12 sections: 82 keep time, 23 are fills, 27 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-72.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART O
OUTRO
8 groovesDLSOA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rocket Skates?

151 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 Rocket Skates hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Rocket Skates?

5 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 7, 11, 12, 15, 19, 20 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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