The Spell Of Mathematics · Deftones

148 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

148

LENGTH

4:55

DIFFICULTY

72/100

snare through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-42, snare through bars 43-55, hi-hat through bars 56-83, snare through bars 84-90 and hi-hat through bars 91-112, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-14, 27-28 and 31-33, and 5 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---g---x---g---x---g---x---g---|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----x-------------------------|

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 22, 38, 42, 59, 67, 83 and 13 more.

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Bars 36-116 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Bars 34-43 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Through Part D and the Chorus 4 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus 5 and Part Y -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.