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Rocket Skates · Deftones

EXERCISE 3 OF 40
Groove D -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 40 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rocket Skates on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-7, ride through bars 8-20, hi-hat through bars 21-44, ride through bars 45-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-81, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x---x-----x---x---x-----|
Rocket Skates -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- L -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-48 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-99 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part T -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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