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Root · Deftones

EXERCISE 21 OF 56
Fill at bar 24
47 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART L
CHORUS
PART H
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCLAAVF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Root on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-62, ride through bars 63-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 25-27 and 29-31, and 3 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-x-----------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-----g-|
BD |x-x---x-------x-x-----x-----x---|
Root -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Root?

91 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 Root hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Root?

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED