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Swerve City · Deftones

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove A -- Intro
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0 / 25 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT
INTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Swerve City on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-15, snare through bars 16-24, hi-hat through bars 25-31, snare through bars 32-40 and ride through bars 41-48, and 2 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 4 more places -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x--x-x--|
Swerve City -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 32, 48, 63 and 64.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Intro and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-33 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-44 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-68 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Swerve City?

112 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Swerve City hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Swerve City?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 32, 48, 63 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED