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This Place Is Death · Deftones

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBS1DS3E+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Place Is Death on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-42, hi-hat through bars 43-64, snare through bars 65-74, silence through bars 75-78, hi-hat through bars 79-82 and snare through bars 83-111, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-32, 43 and 47, and 14 more places -- 47.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    19               20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
SD |--------x-x-----|----------------|
T1 |----------------|x-x-------------|
T2 |----------------|--------x-x-----|
FT |----------------|------------xxxx|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-|----x-x---------|
This Place Is Death -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 50, 58, 64, 66, 72, 82 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 33-51 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Bars 56-84 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is This Place Is Death?

120 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 This Place Is Death hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 This Place Is Death?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 50, 58, 64, 66, 72, 82 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED