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By Myself · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove E -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play By Myself on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 2-51, silence through bars 52-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-82.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
HH |--o-o-o---o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x-g--x--x-g--|
By Myself -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- E, B -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-33 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-82 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED