Royal · Deftones

116 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 103 BPM, 3:23 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 17-19, and 6 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 103 BPM
ROYAL · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 16 and 21 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 12 sections: 73 keep time, 27 are fills, 7 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-116.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDAQADU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Royal?

103 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Royal hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 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 Royal?

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 16 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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