Rx Queen · Deftones

83 bars, 4:45, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 38 more places -- 50.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
RX QUEEN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars: 83 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-83.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rx Queen?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Rx Queen hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 4 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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