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Easier To Run · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 27 OF 28
Run G3 · Outro 2 (bars 62-87)
82 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGKCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Easier To Run on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-3 and hi-hat through bars 4-87.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-18, 38-44 and 62-68, and 3 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----------------x-|
Easier To Run -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 11, 19, 29, 37, 45, 53 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-12 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-22 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-87 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Easier To Run?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Easier To Run hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Easier To Run?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 11, 19, 29, 37, 45, 53 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED