A Place For My Head · Linkin Park

97 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 53-55, and 7 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 133 BPM
A PLACE FOR MY HEAD · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 52, 56, 72, 76, 88 and 1 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 97
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 11 sections: 69 keep time, 7 are fills and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-27.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFBJRO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Place For My Head?

133 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 A Place For My Head hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in A Place For My Head?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 52, 56, 72, 76, 88 and 1 more.

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