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Royal · Deftones

EXERCISE 5 OF 50
Fill at bar 4, 8, 20 and 5 more (a small one)
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0 / 50 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Royal on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-35, hi-hat through bars 36-60, snare through bars 61-68, ride through bars 69-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-80, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |--o-o-o-o---|
SD |------x---f-|
BD |xx-x-----x--|
Royal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 8-33 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-70 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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