When Girls Telephone Boys · Deftones

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-10, 21-32 and 47-49, and 5 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 82 BPM
WHEN GIRLS TELEPHONE BOYS · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 50, 53, 54, 56, 58, 64 and 9 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 53-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 8 sections: 61 keep time, 15 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-44.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACGNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When Girls Telephone Boys?

82 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 When Girls Telephone Boys hard to play on drums?

58 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in When Girls Telephone Boys?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 50, 53, 54, 56, 58, 64 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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