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Cut The Bridge · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 8 OF 50
Groove F
53 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART B
PART D
PART B
PART L
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART T
OUTRO
13 groovesPBLDJ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cut The Bridge on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and kick and crashes through bars 33-38, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-55, 89-95 and 129-135 -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Cut The Bridge -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 24, 39, 40, 64, 79 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- P, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 15-71 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-123 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-63 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cut The Bridge?

150 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 Cut The Bridge 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 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 Cut The Bridge?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 24, 39, 40, 64, 79 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED