Don't Stay · Linkin Park

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 14-16 and 18-24, and 7 more places -- 61.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
DON'T STAY · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 25, 31, 35 and 8 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 6 sections: 51 keep time and 14 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-47.

PART A
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
OUTRO
3 groovesCDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Don't Stay?

90 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 Don't Stay hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 Don't Stay?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 25, 31, 35 and 8 more.

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