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Faint (E standard) · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove G -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Faint (E standard) on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-68, silence through bars 69-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-90.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x--------x------|
Faint (E standard) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 17, 29, 38, 51, 60 and 2 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-39 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED