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Faint · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 10 OF 23
Run E1 · Part E (bars 18-29)
70 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCES1S8S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Faint on drums

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

58 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
58/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-68, 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 5 more places -- 57.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--g-g--x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Faint -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 38, 42, 46 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 35-69 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Faint?

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 hard to play on drums?

58 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 45 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 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 38, 42, 46 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED