Faint (E standard) · Linkin Park

90 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 30-37 and 52-59, and 6 more places -- 51.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
FAINT (E STANDARD) · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 17, 29, 38, 51, 60 and 2 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 8 sections: 69 keep time, 8 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-50.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesGIS7S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Faint (E standard)?

135 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 Faint (E standard) hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 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 Faint (E standard)?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 17, 29, 38, 51, 60 and 2 more.

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