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.

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

TEMPO

82 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

90

LENGTH

4:23

DIFFICULTY

58/100

snare through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-32, hi-hat through bars 33-46 and snare through bars 47-90.

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x----x--x---|
BD |xx-------x-----x|-xx-------x--x-x|

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

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
3. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
4. Bars 50-86 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
6. Through Part C and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.