By Myself · Linkin Park

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-29, 43-50 and 68-73, and 1 more place -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BY MYSELF · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 17, 38, 74 and 82.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 82
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 11 sections: 61 keep time, 5 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-16.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECBS9S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is By Myself?

103 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 By Myself hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 By Myself?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 17, 38, 74 and 82.

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