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Don't Stay · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 16 OF 24
2-bar fill at bar 35
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0 / 24 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
OUTRO
3 groovesCDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Don't Stay on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
70/100

snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-44, snare through bars 45-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-70.

The beat

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x----x--x----|
Don't Stay -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-10 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED